They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuf…

Margaret Atwood
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They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2004). Oryx and Crake, p.40, Anchor
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