GET'IN OLD...

[NY Bearhunter]

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN GUILTY OF LOOKING AT OTHERS YOUR OWN AGE AND
> >THINKING, SURELY I CAN'T LOOK THAT OLD.
> >
> >WELL . . . YOU'LL LOVE THIS ONE.
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> >MY NAME IS ALICE , AND I WAS SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM FOR MY
> >FIRST APPOINTMENT WITH A NEW DENTIST.
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> >I NOTICED HIS DDS DIPLOMA ON THE WALL, 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.
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> >COULD HE BE THE SAME GUY THAT I HAD A SECRET CRUSH ON, WAY BACK THEN?
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> >UPON SEEING HIM, HOWEVER, I QUICKLY DISCARDED ANY SUCH THOUGHT.
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> >THIS BALDING, GRAY-HAIRED MAN WITH THE DEEPLY LINED FACE WAS WAY TOO
> >OLD TO HAVE BEEN MY CLASSMATE.
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> >AFTER HE EXAMINED MY TEETH, I ASKED HIM IF HE HAD ATTENDED MORGAN
> >PARK HIGH SCHOOL .
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> >'YES. YES, I DID. I'M A MUSTANG,' HE GLEAMED WITH PRIDE.
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> >WHEN DID YOU GRADUATE?' I ASKED.
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> >HE ANSWERED, 'IN 1975. WHY DO YOU ASK?'
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> >YOU WERE IN MY CLASS!', I EXCLAIMED.
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> >HE LOOKED AT ME CLOSELY.
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> >THEN, THAT UGLY,
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> >OLD,
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> >BALD,
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> >WRINKLED FACED,
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> >FAT-ASSED,
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> >GRAY-HAIRED,
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> >DECREPIT
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> >SON-OF-A-*****
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> >ASKED,
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> >'WHAT DID YOU TEACH???

[seapower]

Have to admit I have caught myself looking in the mirror and thinking, "who's that"? My how time fly's. Frank