The kind of shopping — where you hand over notes and count out change in return — now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk, from a corner shop.
Some of you have had to overcome serious obstacles along the way, whether it was an illness, or a parent losing a job, or living in a neighborhood where people too often count you out.
Harry counted out five little bronze coins, and the owl held out his leg so Harry could put the money into a small leather pouch tied to it. Then he flew off through the open window.