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A Perfect Day for Bananafish by J. D. Salinger | Short Stories

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A woman with zinc salve on her nose got into the elevator with a young man and Sybil immediately ran down to the flat part of the beach and began to walk in the direction of…

There were ninety-seven New York advertising men in the hotel, and, the way they were monopolizing the long-distance lines, the girl in 507 had to wait from noon till almost two-thirty to get her call through. She used the time, though. She read an article in a women's pocket-size magazine, called "Sex Is Fun-or Hell." She washed her comb and brush. She took the spot out of the skirt of her beige suit. She moved the button on her Saks blouse. She tweezed out two freshly surfaced hairs in her mole. When the operator finally rang her room, she was sitting on the window seat and had almost finish

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