twelve
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We were moved from the rez elementary school to the big central junior high at the same time most of us hit puberty, around eleven or twelve years old.
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It is a requirement that each external board member speak publicly every twelve months.
It was so perfect that even I, who had just seen twelve people eating here, could scarcely believe this was anything but an innocent old man dining with his daughters.
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“I’m off duty at twelve, and that’s just about now. So I’m on my own time.”
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Even those of us whose mouths moved when we were reading our own names knew the multiplication table up through times twelve.
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