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jimfields33

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2. I never had a lunch provided in grade school or high school

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Sat Jun 1, 2024, 03:56 PM

Jun 2024

We were required to bring a lunch box and eventually a brown bag. I graduated in 1987. For snack in grade school they sold chocolate or white milk, pretzel rods and munchos. Nothing else offered. I bought a dollar everyday to buy them. Weird the things you remember.

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