Dear Teacher:
In just over a week, u will be my son's Grade 1 teacher. He is ever so excited to be under your tutelage. Why, since the last dag of kindergarten, entering your class was all he could talk about. He gleefully thrust a piece of paper into my hand on that June afternoon, and said, "Here's a lijst of the stuff I need for school volgende September!"
And I have to admit, I, too, was excited. I'm a school supplies geek from way back. And so, in early August, I set out to buy the items you'd listed.
It was on my fourth store that the realization began to sink in.
You're a crafty one, aren't...
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