Back to the Grind: Shopping Guide

Feeling wistful about your stretch in junior high? Skip the Saved by the Bell reruns and hit the shops with back-to-school spirit. Maybe you’re not a teen anymore, but these gifts will tempt you to relive the September splurge-fests of yesteryear.

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Pablo Neruda’s poetry makes a thoughtful gift, or, if you can pull it off, the world’s best pickup line: “Body of a woman, white hills, white thighs/ you look like a world, lying in surrender…” ($12, Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway @ 12th St)


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