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If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
Weren’t the old “penny candy” stores great? You could go in with a buck and get a paper bag full of sugar in various forms. From rolled bubblegum cigarettes, to candy bead bracelets, giant wax lips, wafer saucers with crunchy sprinkles inside or multi-colored candy dots stuck to something resembling cash register tape, the choices were thrilling!
You could pretend many things with with your candy props – from wearing fancy jewelry or taking communion, to smoking or making out. And the adults couldn’t have cared less.
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We had a little shop in our village when growing up. It was called The Candy Box and, like you, a bag of candy cost pennies. The hard bit was trying to decide what to have from the huge selection of jars full of sugary surprises 😀
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