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When did greeting cards become so rubbish?

19 April 2025

1:22 PM

19 April 2025

1:22 PM

When I heard that WH Smith was going to disappear from our high streets, I became a nostalgic mess. I was transported back to childhood trips to buy pencil cases before each school year began, weekend visits to browse football magazines, some of which I even bought, and those late December expeditions, feeling loaded as I arrived clutching the WH Smith tokens I’d been given for Christmas.

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