Word: landsmen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...require. He made her eat frozen Birds Eye peas for breakfast and then throw up; he seemed to get along best with very young girls; they couldn't even manage to have sex. Any spurned lover can understand Maynard's desire to tell all: after convincing her they are "landsmen"--soulmates--Salinger dumps the vulnerable teenager cruelly and without explanation. The problem is, for someone who uses the letter I as if there were no other vowels on her keyboard, Maynard turns out not to have an introspective bone in her body...