I love Swiss cheese!
I didn’t always love Swiss cheese. We were more of an American cheese family growing up. White, not yellow. Yellow reminded us too much of the government cheese we got for lunch at school before we were old enough to make our own pepper and eggs sandwiches that stained our lunch bags with grease. I once tried for the “world lunch-bag-use record” of one bag for the entire school year.
My lunch bag wasn’t really a lunch bag like Liam and Phoebe have today.
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