The first day of school is the first day a school opens. It varies in different areas round the world because of the differences in weather, climate, season and culture, but the usual pattern is for school to begin in late August or early September in the northern hemisphere, and in late January or early February in southern countries.
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“It was a real treat when he’d read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we’d reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I’d have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one for the girls when living, either.”
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