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Saturday
This will chronicle the events that happen on Saturday, December 15, 1951, which is the first day of Holden's story of the "madman stuff that happened to [him] around last Christmas before [he] got pretty run-down and had to [...] take it easy" (1). -
Leaving Pencey Prep
The story that Holden is telling begins “the day [he] left Pencey Prep [which is] a school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania” (2). -
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