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1  Anyway, something always happens.
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2  She'd feel pretty bad if something like that happened.
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3  I just didn't like anything that was happening at Pencey.
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4  Then something terrible happened just as I got in the park.
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5  Then all of a sudden, something very spooky started happening.
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6  I didn't mind the diarrhea part too much, but something else happened.
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7  That kind of stuff's happened to me about twenty times since I was a kid.
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8  It's terrible to be just in your pajamas when something like that happens.
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9  I probably would've told her what really happened, but it would've taken too long.
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10  I mean I'd love to have you drop up for a cocktail, but my roommate happens to be ill.
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11  They were in hysterics the whole time, like it was the funniest thing that ever happened.
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12  Anyway, what happened was, one day Bobby and I were going over to Lake Sedebego on our bikes.
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13  I happened to have it with me, in my suitcase, so I got it out and copied down the poems that were written on it.
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14  It happens to me a lot, I know, partly because my last name is Irish, and most people of Irish descent are Catholics.
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15  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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16  I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.
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17  When we were at Whooton, he'd make you describe the most personal stuff that happened to you, but if you started asking him questions about himself, he got sore.
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