Jerome David Salinger is dead.
January 27th 2010.
I'm running out of live heroes.
I feel a little numb here.
It's not like he lectured at my school, or shook my hand
but he made a lot of my work possible even if he never intended to.
Thanks old man. I'll be sure to never buy a T-shirt with your picture, or go digging through your notes in some desperate attempt to find "the lost novel".