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I was in first grade and I had a small rainbow colored eraser. A classmate had given it to me. I was fascinated by it. I loved the feel of the rubber, how it looked, and apparently how it smelled. I kept smelling it. Somehow the eraser got sucked up into my nostril. I tried picking it out with my finger but that just made it worse. I was scared. Was I going to have this eraser up my nose forever? I told the classmate who had given it to me, and she ended up telling the teacher. The teacher pulled me to the side and asked me about it. I was hesitant on telling her what had happened. I was extremely embarrassed. When discovering that I really did have an eraser up my nose, she sent me to the health nurse, who called my grandmother. They told her that I needed to go to the doctor. Instead, she took me home because she did not want to pay a doctor bill. She pulled my head back, stuck a pair of tweezers up there, and out came the eraser. I have read similar stories online and it is a joy to read the kinds of things that children will put up their nose. Paper, raisins, acorns, jellybeans. What will kids think of next? To this day it is something that I will never forget. Every time I look back on that moment it makes me smile.

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