I was 18 when i first read this and my younger brother john had just died a short three weeks after being diagnosed with acute leukemia. For me then he had it right. And this fictional encounter had more influence on my life than all the condolences and families of port in the world. I loved reading it and i quickly found myself a king for help in everything i read. I like ron scanned Anna Karenina for his devil may care attitude towards paying bills. He throws them all in a drawer and he sits down to pay them three times a year. I learned that the Telephone Company did not appreciate his point of view. Still, with or without the bill paid brodskys life is more vivid than mine and more vivid than the lives of my friends. And he seemed as real as any character in a biography. And so it was with the book. I fell in love with small boats and sailing through swallows and amazons. My friends and i learned cool from Holden Caulfield and the catcher in the rye and of course there is poetry. I
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