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1  Boy, did I get in that house fast.
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2  "Her mother belonged to the same club we did," I said.
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3  The only way he ever did anything was if you yelled at him.
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4  You should've seen the way he did with my roommate's parents.
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5  Like as if all you ever did at Pencey was play polo all the time.
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6  You never saw anybody nod as much in your life as old Spencer did.
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7  We were practically the same heighth, but he weighed about twice as much as I did.
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8  All I did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder.
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9  All he did was lift the Atlantic Monthly off his lap and try to chuck it on the bed, next to me.
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10  I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go.
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11  What I did was, I pulled the old peak of my hunting hat around to the front, then pulled it way down over my eyes.
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12  He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did.
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13  The reason I asked was because Ackley never did anything on Saturday night, except stay in his room and squeeze his pimples or something.
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14  He started walking around the room, very slow and all, the way he always did, picking up your personal stuff off your desk and chiffonier.
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15  I didn't like the way he said it, so I said, "The reason she did that, she probably just didn't know what a handsome, charming bastard you are."
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16  What he did, he started these undertaking parlors all over the country that you could get members of your family buried for about five bucks apiece.
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17  Brossard and Ackley both had seen the picture that was playing, so all we did, we just had a couple of hamburgers and played the pinball machine for a little while, then took the bus back to Pencey.
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