Chapter 16

I finished my breakfast around twelve, but I wasn’t meeting Sally until two. So I decided I would take this really long walk. But all I could think about were the two nuns. The old beat up straw basket that they collected their money in.

I walked over to Broadway. I wanted to go to this record store to find Phoebe’s favourite record. ‘Little Shirley Beans.’ It was very hard to get. It was about this kid that wouldn’t go out of the hue because she didn’t have her two front teeth.

I saw this family walking infront of me. A father, mother and a little kid. The father and his wife were just talking, not paying any attention to the kid. The kid was swell. Instead of waking on the sidewalk he walked right next to the curb. He kept singing. ‘If a body catch a body coming through the rye.’ It made me feel a little bit better. I wasn’t so depressed.