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School Days - School Lunch & Planet Boy
Season 8, Ep. 1
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“Just one day, she wanted one of them to come home and say ‘Gee, lunch was good.’”
The alarm clocks are set, the pencils are sharpened, the backpack is loaded. It’s September! We’re back to school and back with a brand new season of Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe and two hilarious Stuart McLean stories about school days.
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