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 Current Search - Wonder in The Catcher in the Rye
1  I was wondering if you were busy today.
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2  "No wonder you're flunking the hell out of here," he said.
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3  I wondered if maybe he just liked to pat guys on the head when they're asleep.
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4  I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something.
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5  I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over.
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6  I mean I wondered if just maybe I was wrong about thinking be was making a flitty pass at me.
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7  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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8  In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them.
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9  I even started wondering if maybe I should've got my bags and gone back to his house, the way I'd said I would.
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10  She wasn't too sexy or anything, but even so you can't help wondering what a nun maybe thinks about when she reads about old Eustacia.
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11  I just mean that I used to think about old Spencer quite a lot, and if you thought about him too much, you wondered what the heck he was still living for.
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12  I didn't want to, but I started thinking about old Mr. Antolini and I wondered what he'd tell Mrs. Antolini when she saw I hadn't slept there or anything.
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13  Then I started wondering like a bastard what the one sitting next to me, that taught English, thought about, being a nun and all, when she read certain books for English.
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