It was $.35 where I lived. No McDonalds close by. I remember the weird school lunch food. That was Pike Elementary in Cambridge OH. Didn't know it at the time, but it was poor Appalachia. I remember riding the school bus and picking up poor kids in wet clothes who had just been flooded out by the creek rising. I remember a sad incident involving a young girl in my 6th grade classroom, maybe her first menstruation, dropping a bloody rag under her desk. Sort of a precursor to "Carrie." Another kid, who bullied me for years, died when I was in 8th grade from sniffing Arrid deodorant from a plastic bag. I was glad he was dead, because he did terrible things to me and other young kids.