____ leaving the skating rink, Holden goes to a drugstore and ____ a Swiss cheese sandwich and a malted milk. ____ again, he thinks ____ calling Jane, ____ his mind begins to wander. He remembers the time he ____ her at a dance with a boy Holden thought was a show-off, but Jane ____ that the boy had an inferiority complex. Holden decides that girls always say that as an excuse ____ date arrogant boys. Finally, he calls Jane, but ____ one answers. He then calls a boy named Carl Luce, whom he ____ to know at the Whooton School, and Luce agrees to meet him ____ drinks later that night. To ____ time, Holden goes to see a movie ____ Radio City Music Hall. He ____ the Rockettes’ Christmas stage show ridiculous and superficial, but it makes him remember ____ he and Allie ____ to love the kettledrum player in the Radio City pit orchestra. The man was an unnoticed, minuscule ____ of the show, but he seemed to ____ joy and pride ____ what he did. After the show, the movie begins, ____ Holden claims to ____ boring as well. When it is over, he begins walking to the Wicker Bar, ____ he is supposed to meet Luce. The movie was ____ the war, ____ Holden thinks about the army. Based on what D. B. has told him, Holden decides that he ____ never be in the military. He would ____, he says, ____ shot by a firing squad or sit ____ top of an atom bomb.

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