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EDITORIAL R
eturning to Repton this past September, as we eagerly anticipated the start of our Lower Sixth year - and the newfound privileges and long-awaited free periods that it would bring - the excitement was tempered with the realisation that we had not experienced a year considered ‘normal’ since our own B Block. The past few years have posed challenges to all of us, both as individuals as well as part of the wider Repton community that no one could have predicted. Yet, within that time, as last year’s Editor noted, there existed a real sense of flourishing within our community, despite the abnormal conditions we were living within. As we progress through this more ‘normal’ year, seeing the return of events that are integral to the Repton experience – from the highly anticipated Invitational Dinners and House Unison to the more anxiously awaited return of the Steeplechase – it is clear how we as a community are no longer ‘flourishing despite’, but simply flourishing. The purpose of The Reptonian, as much as anything else, is to provide a snapshot of the year, tangible proof of the fact that, in a world still filled with uncertainty, the spirit
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