who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. ✨ J.D. Salinger (1951). The…

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who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. ✨ J.D. Salinger (1951). The Catcher in the Rye
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He once told Allie and I that if he'd had to shoot anybody, he wouldn't've known which direction to shoot in. He said the Army was practically as full of bastards as the Nazis were. ✨ J. D. SALINGER … ▶
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