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[Alma J Wetzker]

Has the firehose been urned off?

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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 this blustery Friday morning, and 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.

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.

After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended Rockland High
school "Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a Tiger." he gleamed with pride.

"When did you graduate?" I asked.

He answered, "In 1959.  Why do you ask?"

"You were in my class!" I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely.

Then, that ugly, old, wrinkled son-of-a- bitch asked, "What did you
teach?"