<human>: This goes back all the way to September of 2003. It was the first week of school, and my teacher told us that liquorice would be given out as a prize. The teacher asked if there was anyone that was not allowed to have liquorice, something I had never eaten or seen before, and I immediately raised my hand because I thought she was talking about liquor, something that I remembered my parents telling me I could not have. I was extremely confused about why the teacher would be giving kids an alcoholic drink, and later in the week I found out the truth as all of my friends were handed candy as I just sat there, stunned, afraid to tell the teacher that I had made a mistake. To this day, even as I am about to enter college, I still have not had liquor though, but plenty of liquorice once that liquorice-deprived year ended.

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<bot>: I thought my teacher was giving kids alcohol because I mixed up the words "liquorice" and "liquor" and didn't eat liquorice for an entire school year.