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1  I caddy'd for her mother a couple of times.
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2  A couple of minutes later, he was snoring like mad.
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3  I came quite close to doing it a couple of times, though.
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4  "Well, I sort of glanced through it a couple of times," I told him.
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5  After a while I sat down in a chair and smoked a couple of cigarettes.
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6  It was about five hundred thousand years in the life of this one old couple.
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7  I knew this one girl, a couple of years ago, that was even crumbier than I was.
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8  I'd double-dated with that bastard a couple of times, and I know what I'm talking about.
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9  AFTER OLD SUNNY was gone, I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple of cigarettes.
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10  I passed by this playground and stopped and watched a couple of very tiny kids on a seesaw.
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11  Woodruff, and I knew she was home because I'd had this letter from her a couple of weeks ago.
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12  I had to pack these brand-new ice skates my mother had practically just sent me a couple of days before.
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13  Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne were the old couple, and they were very good, but I didn't like them much.
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14  Then what happened, a couple of days later I saw Jane laying on her stomach next to the swimming pool, at the club, and I said hello to her.
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15  And what made it worse, there were at least a couple of hundred rubbernecks that didn't have anything better to do than stand around and watch everybody falling all over themselves.
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16  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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17  She kept saying these very corny, boring things, like calling the can the "little girls' room," and she thought Buddy Singer's poor old beat-up clarinet player was really terrific when he stood up and took a couple of ice-cold hot licks.
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