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Second-grader at Green Street School to get soft on a critical academic matter
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Annabelle Kriger Thies
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 — Issue 260

BRATTLEBORO — Our class tissues are not very comfortable. They hurt our noses very badly. We would like some softer tissues, please.

These tissues make our noses chapped, but I'm grateful we have tissues for our class. They don't make my nose so runny, but they feel like sandpaper, and our noses get red when we use them.

We would be so so very, very grateful for new soft, fluffy, and comfy ones that don't make our noses hurt.

I am not trying to complain - nobody is - but softer, please.

Again, we would be so grateful for new ones.

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