HINT OF THE MONTH: October 2021

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“Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can't sharpen it on the plane, because you can't take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.” ~~ Margaret Atwood

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