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A Classmate, 40 years Later

Have you been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, “surely I can’t look that old?”

I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his DDS diploma, which bore his full name.

Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then?

Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate. Hmmm—or could he??

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Central High School.

“Yes. Yes, I did.” he gleamed with pride.

“When did you graduate?” I asked.

He answered, “In 1957. Why do you ask?”

“You were in my class!” I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely.

And then, that miserable, near-sighted, ugly, old, wrinkled son of-a-bitch asked, “WHAT DID YOU TEACH?”

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