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Tonight, I will be reading F. Scott Fitzgerald's, the great Gatsby.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 1

In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice that I've been turning

over in my mind ever since.

Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world

haven't had the advantages that you've had. He didn't say any more, but we've always been

unusually communicative in a reserved way. And I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.

In consequence, I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many

curious natures to me, and also made me the victim of not a few veteran Boers.

The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality

when it appears in a normal person.

And so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician because I was privy to the

secret griefs of wild unknown men. Most of the confidences were unsought. Frequently, I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate

revelation was quivering on the horizon. For the intimate revelations of young men, or at least

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