I also grew up in NYC, and went to a high school that was on the edge of a slum. I knew a lot of kids who were growing up in a nasty, dangerous environment (and school occasionally got dangerous as well), so my general attitude towards Holden was "You think you got problems?"
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Date: 2010-01-29 04:44 pm (UTC)I was, I think, 13 or 14 when I read it.