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For the past 20 years, DJ Anardi and his high school buddies often wondered when a certain blast from the past would land in their mailboxes.
About a month ago, just around his 36th birthday, Mr. Anardis arrived.
Hey you good-looking guy, how is your life? read the wobbly printed letters scrawled on three-hole punched lined paper, written by a 15-year-old to his much-older self.
He wanted to go to college and play football, it read. Instead, he built a career at a steel mill. He wanted three or four children. He now has two boys. He was dating another girl when he put pen to paper back in the early 1990s, but harboured a crush on a girl named Erin.
Today, Erin is his wife and the mother of his children.
For the past four decades, a Saskatchewan high school English teacher has kept his commitment to thousands of former students by mailing them all a handwritten letter they had written to themselves as high school freshmen, to be read by their eyes only when they reached adulthood.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04/01/teacher-keeps-promise-to-mail-thousands-of-former-students-letters-written-by-their-past-selves/
cool guy.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)3rd grade teacher gave him a letter she wrote for him to open on graduation day. Every now and then, I am tempted to read it. Right now is one of those times. But I won't. She adored him to no end so it will be a good one.
renate
(13,776 posts)Nobody gets into it for the money--even the ones who try it and fail (or who stick with it when maybe they shouldn't) had the best of intentions, so I admire even the bad ones. But the ones who are good--they are truly special.
a2liberal
(1,524 posts)I had a teacher do something similar in elementary school. We were supposed to get them when graduating high school I think. Never did. Don't get me wrong I don't havea grudge or anything, teachers have a lot on their plates. But I do sometimes wonder what I wrote and would love to see it
Perhaps it's something parents should do with their kids (just thinking out loud here)... That sort of time machine into the thoughts of a younger self would be so neat