J.D. Salinger, in a letter to Eve Shea:
I’m cheerless at weddings, but almost entirely, wholly, and I’m convinced it’s not a bad idea at all to spare people I like the sight of me standing around, mostly mute, with a drink I don’t want in my hand.Shea met Salinger in 1977, when she was thirteen. They were very occasional correspondents for fourteen years. Read more:
Goodbye Uncle Jerry (The Globe and Mail)
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