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Adornments

Going to school meant becoming an adult. I balanced the transition with some Disney stickers.

I was lucky to have whole sheets of those because grandpa worked in the printing press. Every now and again he’d bring boxes of paper-goods for me and my one year younger cousin — colouring books, notebooks for school, and stickers.

Strong colours on the covers, a nightmare of design, and for my dad, the pinnacle of bad taste.

For me it was cheerful and more absorbing than the brown-grey colour scale of the grown-up world. I tried to make their world better putting stickers on furniture, but all my tries were considered bad taste.

✒️ The next story is about the status game.