School Days
Jack surveyed the list and sighed, wishing Bobby were with him. He was gonna screw this up, for sure. Book bag, crayons, crayon box (didn't crayons come in a box?), ruler, 6 #2 pencils (exactly 6? - and what was the obsession with #2?), pencil box, (another box!?), 2 pink erasers, rounded scissors (rounded?), 6 pocket folders with brads (what the hell were "brads"?), glue or glue sticks (glue came in sticks?), 4 spiral notebooks–wide ruled, 1 composition book–wide ruled (weren't they the same thing?), 1 package index cards, paint smock with name, 1 set of water colors, 2 boxes of Kleenex…….
He thought back to his first days of school in Lightning Flat – lunch in a paper sack and, if he was lucky, a nub of pencil behind his ear.
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