When I was in elementary school in the Philadelphia Public School System, we sold things. 

No, not the illegal kind. It was school-sanctioned.

Several times a year, our homeroom teachers would hand out neatly folded pamphlets with beautiful photographs on the covers and inside pages. The back page had multi-colored columns. Those were for us for easier tabulation. Our task was to ask our neighbors, friends, family and extended friends and family to buy gourmet…

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