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THE PENCIL THAT CORRECTED TOMORROW

Rohan found the pencil under his examination desk. It looked ordinary except for two words printed along its side: NOT YET. He used it during maths. When he wrote 42, the pencil erased the answer by itself and replaced it

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The last bench knows who forgot their homework, who drew galaxies behind the timetable, who watched rain instead of equations, who whispered “I don’t understand” too softly for the teacher to hear.

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