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I remember books from when I was a kid where the characters' schools just turned them loose for an hour at lunch to eat at home...

I remember books from when I was a kid where the characters’ schools just turned them loose for an hour at lunch to eat at home or a local place or something and that sounded totally foreign to me but when I came to Portland I found they still do that, but now that I think of it a lot of those books might have been Beverly Cleary’s Portland-set stuff so I don’t know if that’s always just been a here thing or what.

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