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1  I had quit trembling and my color was back.

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2  Johnny came back then and sat down beside me.

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3  Dally came striding back with an armful of Cokes.

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Context   In Chapter 2

4  Soda just held him and pushed Johnny's hair back out of his eyes.

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5  His ring, which he had rolled a drunk senior to get, was back on his finger.

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6  I could feel my palms getting clammy and the perspiration running down my back.

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7  Johnny's color was back and his breathing was regular, but his hand was shaking ever so slightly.

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8  But when I came back to reality and looked at her, I was startled to find her as white as a sheet.

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9  He had told us stories about muggings in New York that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

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10  And Johnny, who was the most law-abiding of us, now carried in his back pocket a six-inch switchblade.

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11  "It's a shame you can't ride bull half as good as you can talk it," the redhead said coolly and turned back around.

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12  He put his feet up on the back of the redhead's chair, winked at me, and beat his own record for saying something dirty.

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13  My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut.

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14  It had taken more than nerve for him to say what he'd said to Dally--- Johnny worshiped the ground Dallas walked on, and I had never heard Johnny talk back to anyone, much less his hero.

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15  His hair was almost white it was so blond, and he didn't like haircuts, or hair oil either, so it fell over his forehead in wisps and kicked out in the back in tufts and curled behind his ears and along the nape of his neck.

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16  We crossed Sutton and cut around behind Spencer's Special, the discount house, and chased two junior-high kids across a field for a few minutes; by then it was dark enough to sneak in over the back fence of the Nightly Double drive-in movie.

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17  We walked around talking to all the greasers and hoods we knew, leaning in car windows or hopping into the back seats, and getting in on who was running away, and who was in jail, and who was going with who, and who could whip who, and who stole what and when and why.

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