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Crayola is retiring one of its crayon colors on Friday

On National Crayon Day on Friday, Crayola is scheduled to announce the retirement of a color from the pack during an event in New York's Times Square. (Richard Drew/AP)

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The Associated Press

March 29, 2017 - 4:52 am

NEW YORK — Friday is National Crayon Day and Crayola says it will mark the occasion by retiring one of its colors.

Crayola says the announcement revealing which color is getting retired will be livestreamed on Facebook on Friday morning.

On Facebook, news of the impending color retirement brought suggestions as to which colors it should or shouldn’t be. Others lamented that Crayola is retiring a color at all.

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