It\u2019s back-to-school time, which means nostalgia for covering books in contact and spending way too long in the notebook aisle<\/p>\n
As a child of the 90s, my summers were spent splashing in the neighbours\u2019 overly chlorinated pool and flicking through the back-to-school stationery catalogue. I circled the essential items, categorised my needs and wants, and cross-referenced them with the list the school had provided. I marked \u201cstationery shopping\u201d on my calendar \u2013 an annual highlight \u2013 and counted down the days.<\/p>\n
Despite the heat and humidity \u2013 the least conducive weather conditions for covering exercise books in sticky contact \u2013 my mother would take deep breaths and carefully coat each one in whatever print I\u2019d chosen. She used a ruler to remove the bubbles while I dreaded the very real possibility that I\u2019d have to live with ugly folds on my school books for a whole year. I\u2019m the first-born daughter \u2013 that kind of imperfect would never do.<\/p>\n
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