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A Libturd on Guns

4 min readMay 5, 2025

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Photo by Martin Podsiad on Unsplash

On December 14, 2012, I was volunteering in our daughter’s 4th grade classroom. I was there to help out with Market Day.

Market Day is a project our neighborhood public grade school does every year with the 4th graders. The kids come up with a product they can make and “sell” to each other for fun money the teachers print up and cut out. The kids come up with a product design and marketing plan, and on Market Day, they set up “shop” at their desks, complete with signs and prices.

First, parents are allowed to come in and shop for goods. I cannot begin to express the joy of that day. The kids came up with absolutely ingenious products to craft and market. One kid crafted “knights” from old-fashioned round wooden clothes pins and dressed them in foil armor, helmets and swords. One girl fastened silk flowers to ends of ballpoint pens. One boy sold art photographs. Still another kid made snow globes out of old baby food jars filled with water, trinkets and glitter. Our daughter made colorful rubber band bracelets that were in style at the time.

The variety of items, the imagination, and the hard work those kids put into their projects was nothing short of impressive. Not only were we parents impressed…

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Human Parts
Human Parts
Amber Fraley
Amber Fraley

Written by Amber Fraley

Writing about abortion rights, mental illness, trauma, narcissistic abuse & survival, politics. Journalist, novelist, wife, mom, Kansan, repro rights activist.