He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and th…

J. D. Salinger
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He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving. ✨ j.d. salinger (1961). franny and zooey
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