When you were in school, what was your favourite new school thing to get at the beginning of the school year?

When you were in school, what was your favourite new school thing to get at the beginning of the school year?
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Oh a new pen – always I had to have a new pen. And a new bottle of blue ink. And praise from my tutors
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