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The Swede. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete. The name was magical; so was the anomalous face. - American Pastoral (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)] The first time I saw Brenda she asked me to hold her glasses. - Goodbye, Columbus [Books (First Lines)] She was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise. - Portnoy's Complaint [Books (First Lines)] Either forswear fucking others or the affair is over. - Sabbath's Theater (ch. 1) [Books (First Lines)]
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