High School Comes Back to Haunt You

Like many of my stories, this one is a two-part coincidence; first one occurring 30+ years later and the second part, 37 years later.

In February of 2002, I was living in Chester County. I had dropped my teenager off at a party and rather than go home, I was invited to join friends at their neighbor's house until it was time to pick up my daughter.

It was nice to meet Emma and Walter and somewhere in the course of the conversation, I mentioned I was from Delaware County. Emma told me that she graduated from Haverford High School in 1972. I told her that my husband also graduated from the same high school - same year. All I had to say was his first name and she chimed in with his full name, declaring that she had been in school with him since 5th grade!! She remembered the color of his hair and that he had a crew-cut.

 

In April of 2009, I went to an event hosted by Widener Law School in Wilmington, Delaware.

There was an older man in his 80's, sitting at the end of the bar alone, eating some soup. We started talking and he told me about his recent heart operation and that he was a retired history teacher from Haverford High School. When he told me his name, I recognized it from stories my husband would tell. I asked the gentleman if he remembered my husband. I did not get the same reaction from him that Emma gave so I don't know if that was a good thing or not but I will leave it at that!!