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'''By: [[Norman Mailer]]'' | '''By: [[Norman Mailer]]''' | ||
{{quote box |"Love-Buds", a short story, was written in Mailer's senior year at Harvard (1942–43) and it was never published. The Norman Mailer estate has graciously given permission to reprint the story. [[13.3|Images]] are courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. |author=Phillip Sipiora}} | {{quote box |"Love-Buds", a short story, was written in Mailer's senior year at Harvard (1942–43) and it was never published. A transcription of the story follows the images. The Norman Mailer estate has graciously given permission to reprint the story. [[13.3|Images]] are courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. |author=Phillip Sipiora}} | ||
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They were seventeen and they had never had a woman. All that summer at the hotel on the New Jersey seashore to which their parents had brought them, they talked about it, they made plans, they discussed the few girls they knew, and they cast about for some way to enter the state of manhood. They were not big boys, they were somewhat small even for seventeen, one short and inclined to be fat, one short and rather thin, and they were named respectively Harold and Lester; their nicknames, Al and Eppy. | They were seventeen and they had never had a woman. All that summer at the hotel on the New Jersey seashore to which their parents had brought them, they talked about it, they made plans, they discussed the few girls they knew, and they cast about for some way to enter the state of manhood. They were not big boys, they were somewhat small even for seventeen, one short and inclined to be fat, one short and rather thin, and they were named respectively Harold and Lester; their nicknames, Al and Eppy. | ||
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