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While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room of a dentist, I noticed his certificate, which bore his full name.

            Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 40 years ago.  Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought.  This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was too old to have been my classmate.

            After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the local high school.

            “Yes,” he replied.  “When did you graduate?” I asked.  He answered, “In 1965.”

            “Why, you were in my class!”  I exclaimed.

He looked at me closely and then asked, “What did you teach?”