I'm a good judge of my own work.
I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
Asleep, he looked a lot younger than going-on-seventeen, but I had noticed that Johnny looked younger when he was asleep too, so I figured everyone did. Maybe people are younger when they are asleep.
But Dally, heaters kill people! Ya' kill 'em with switchblades to, don'tcha?
I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
...I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.