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Seventy-five
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2021-02-18 23:03:05It had been two weeks already and if Dexter wasn’t teasing her or just annoying her for no reason, he was his moody self and coming in really late or not at all.
Anelia was sitting cross-legged from Natie and was busy helping her with her homework. “Here, this is how you can easily remember the nine times table.” Natie curiously looked at her as Anelia raised her hands.
“Nine times one, you take down your thumb. There you have it, nine but that’s an obvious one. Let’s move on to nines times two, you take down the second finger. See, I’m left with my thumb and eight more this side. So, that’s eighteen.”
“Woah, that’s so much easier,” she immediately started to use the method to calculate on her own, her face lighting up at the new information. “I don&rsquo
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