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MaryL[_2_] MaryL[_2_] is offline
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Default Kids in restaurants... something to thing about

On 7/28/2015 11:05 AM, wrote:

> In grammar school we were lent our textbooks. I believe they got between
> three and five years' use out of each one. We had to cover them to prevent
> their being marred, and of course we could not write in them. This training
> prevents me from writing in a book to this day.
>

Same here! I remember making book covers out of paper bags or wrapping
paper. (And I'm not a Brit, to answer the follow-up question. I grew
up in northeast Ohio.)

MaryL