For Esmé with Love and Squalor

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For Esme with Love and Squalor

"For Esmé with Love and Squalor" is a short story by J. D. Salinger. Originally published in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950, it was anthologized in Salinger's Nine Stories two years later. (While the story collection's American title is Nine Stories, it is actually known as For Esmé with Love and Squalor in most countries.) For Esmé is an Army sergeant's (referred to only as Sergeant X) recollection of a meeting he had with a young girl, Esmé, before he was sent into combat. His strange but... full article at wikipedia

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