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“Have We Bought Everything?”: A Mother’s Saturday Before the New School Year

Saturday morning arrives differently when school resumption is only a few days away. The house is awake earlier than usual, not because anyone planned it that way, but because there is suddenly too much to do. In a Canadian home somewhere in Ontario, Maya’s mother is already standing in the kitchen with her phone in one hand and a shopping list in the other, mentally running through everything she needs before Monday. New notebooks. Pencils. Pens. A lunch bag. A…