I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If …

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I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. ✨ 'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 22.
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I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. ✨ 'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 22.

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