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The Grateful Class of ’68

FOR A FEW WEEKS after my mother’s death, I was in possession of the painstakingly annotated high school yearbook that had been dedicated to her by the grateful class of 1968.

Yes, she’d been their English teacher and yearbook advisor, but that didn’t explain

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