He continued, "But I would ask anyone to think back on their own high school days and ask themselves how well they remember a kid who might have been at their school for even a semester. Or someone you went out with just one time. If you had no photo reference, after 25 years, you'd probably have just a hazy recollection."
When I was just out of high school, I dated a very pretty girl once. She was on a rebound from her boyfriend (Kenny, I remember that name because she mentioned him a couple of times) and I saw an opportunity, so I asked her out. As dashing, sophisticated, and studly as I was, she didn't show much interest in me on that date, and I never saw her again.
I have a pretty good image of her in my mind, and with some Facebook stalking, managed to find her profile. I stalked - I mean looked - through her photos and found her graduation pic (a year or two before we dated). I was surprised to see that she was not exactly how I remember her. She was indeed pretty (that much I got right), but if I saw her today as she was back then, I would NOT recognize her.
I think Bob Gale got this exactly right.
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