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>Summer 97'
>Be in a book shop
>Came to buy a hardcopy of The Lord of the Flies
>Go to pay for it when I notice a box of Pokemon foil packs
>Decided to buy one packet, fucked if I know why
>Go home and open them
>Never seen artwork like it before in my life
>This is the moment I was introduced to Japanese culture
>No idea what to do with them
>Go back to school
>All the rich kids have like full fucking decks and shit
>Poor kids have maybe 2 dozen cards max
>School now has an economy, the 1% hold the rares, while poorfags like me have to scrimp and save for even a shit-tier rare Butterfree
>Dad hooks up with his future on-off wife
>Her son is from the city, they get everyone before us Village fags
>He has over 300 cards and 40 shinies
>Gives them to me fore nothing because he wants me to like him
>Go into school
>It's revolution time pokefags
>Rich kids suddenly stop getting trades
>'Le happy merchant face'
>Rich fags say my cards are fake because the leader of the richfags works at nintendo
>Everyone laughs at him
>Was the last year of school, was the best year of school
>Pokemon
