Punch Card Cash Envy

20 Dec 2004

Over at Sparkwood and 21, Brittney's got another great, introspective piece, this time on elementary school lunches: "I wildly envied the kids that paid the whole dollar for their pizza and french fries and chocolate milk in cash."

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