Jerome David Salinger was an American author, best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, as well as his reclusive nature. He followed Catcher with, Nine Stories and Franny and Zooey. Nine Stories, one of my favorite books as a teenager, injected ideas into my brain! And those ideas would make me question, “Why do people come to terms with the lives they live, when they really long for something completely opposite?”  I guess its like the old saying goes, “You’ve made your bed, now lie in it” — or so we think. Salinger died of natural causes at his home in New Hampshire on January 27, 2010. He was 91. A representative believed that his death was not a painful one.

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Willie Forreal

Gary Wilson – And Then I Kissed Your Lips (1977)