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Sometimes it takes us years before we realize how wrong our halloween costumes were. (Original Post) Bucky Jan 2012 OP
The one on the right kentauros Jan 2012 #1
I'd like to imagine him wearing that costume in my 7th grade English class. pacalo Jan 2012 #2

pacalo

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2. I'd like to imagine him wearing that costume in my 7th grade English class.
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 04:16 AM
Jan 2012

One classmate had drawn a swastika in his notebook. The teacher grabbed it, crumpled it up, & threw it in the wastebasket.

She said her grandfather had been in a prison camp (the word "holicaust" wasn't used in the early '60's) & that she never wanted to see that symbol in her classroom again.


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