A Girl I Knew by J.D. Salinger
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Transcript
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This is a girl I knew by J. D. Salinger. The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of Autumn Twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing pulled in the universe together. The way the profile of her face and body reflected. The soupy twilight made me feel a little drunk. When a few seconds had throbbed by, I said hello to her. She then looked up at me, and though she seems decorously startled, something told me she wasn't too surprised that I had heard her singing the Boswell number. This didn't matter, of course. I asked her in murderous German if I might join her on the balcony. The request obviously rattled her. She replied in English that she didn't think her father would like me to come down to see her. At this point, my opinion of girls fathers, which had been low for years, struck bottom, but nevertheless I managed a drab little nod of understanding