Chapter 12.when pony finally takes our home with the wind,what does he find?

Ponyboy finally picks up the copy of Gone with the Wind and sees the note left by Johnny:

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

The note also tells Pony to reach out to Dally.