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What you can always expect.


... that kids will grab the shortest pencil in the pencil box because it is more fun to write with a pencil that is one-inch long.

... that if it is your birthday, they will guess you are older than you are. They will guess that you are a hundred.

... that they will say "cinnamon cinnamon, name for trees and shrubs of the genus Cinnamomum of the family Lauraceae (laurel family). Cinnamon spice comes chiefly from the Sri Lankan cinnamon (C. zeylanicum), now cultivated in several tropical regions. " when it says "synonym synonym (sĭn`ənĭm) [Gr.,=having the same name], word having a meaning that is the same as or very similar to the meaning of another word of the same language. Some are alike in some meanings only, as live and dwell. ."

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... that when you drive behind the school bus on the way home, they will wave to you and make faces. If you wave and make faces too, they will laugh and keep waving and making faces as long as you drive behind the bus.

--FROM 32 THIRD GRADERS AND ONE CLASS BUNNY bunny

delivers chocolates, etc., to children. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 487]

See : Easter
, BY TEACHER PHILLIP DONE (TOUCHSTONE touchstone

Black, silica-containing stone used in assaying to determine the purity of gold and silver. The metal to be assayed is rubbed on the touchstone, and then a sample of metal of known purity is rubbed on the stone right next to it.
, 2005)
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