Back in the day
we all brought home made treats to school to share with classmates on our birthdays. My fourth grade year, I was diagnosed as diabetic and spent six weeks in the hospital. The first birthday party in class after I got back, the girl who was turning 10 brought cupcakes for everyone else, and me a wax pack of Topps 1972 baseball cards. The first card in the pack was Willie Mays. (it was her idea to get the baseball cards, since she knew I had just started to collect that year, but she had to promise her mom to stand there and take the piece of gum when I opened the pack, since it wasn't sugar free. I remember Becky kept apologizing for that, but saying she had promised her mom she would bring it back home to prove I hadn't chewed it...)
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