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He turned out to be a Henry Crawford.
The problem is I'm no Fanny Price.
I felt at his persistent charm
and got a disillusioned heart.
Gladly the pain came in good time
to cover up this heart of mine.

J.D. Salinger seems to be one of those people, where you either love him or hate him. At least I know there are many people who have very strong feelings against The Catcher in the Rye, which I thought was a brilliant book when I read it.

Needless to say I love Salinger, he fascinates me, and perhaps not surprisingly I adore his rather cynical and jaded characters. The emotional coldness that they often have, and their dysfunction in society and relating to other people really speaks ...

I had this story in the contest and removed it at my own request. You see, it is historical fiction, and we deal with the world on this site. I couldn’t expect people to know facts that I myself have researched over a number of years.

I have dug through newspapers of the time, read biography after biography, and even read some of the gangs memoirs, such as Cole Younger’s, available on Project Gutenberg.

I also needed to rewrite part of the story.

So ...

Goodbye Billie Jean, you were the One!

From some obscure corner of the Indian Subcontinent I saw you Moon Walk across our imaginations to Beat It and it was a Thriller!

I was only a kid but you were the One! To show us how to dance, to move our bodies to the beat!

You were unique and though your life became a macabre as one of the zombies in your videos, but when I see you on Motown 25th doing Billie Jean, your music and dance still mesmerizes me, it ...

Everyone needs peace. I just learned the meaning of a line in "Seahorse," "the need for peace starts from within."

The need for peace can't be forced on anyone. No one can say, "You need to look for peace," it needs to start from within. If it's externally suggested or forced, then it'll always be separate from the self... so the true need comes from within. And while it's true that everyone needs peace, they have to learn for themselves so that need ...