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problem with her reunions.
Well, maybe one problem.
At the first one I attended with
her, I scanned the list of attendees
and noticed one name in particular.
"I dated her a few times," I told
Sherry with untoward enthusiasm.
"She was really a pretty girl. I'm
looking forward to seeing her
GEORGE
again."
CANTOR
"Izzat right?" asked Sherry.
Reality Check
Came the big night and there she
was, across a crowded room. I made
my way over to her, smiling broadly,
laugh.
offered
a greeting and was met with
We were coming home from her
an
utterly
blank stare. I gave her my
high school reunion. Mumford,
name.
Nothing.
She hadn't the
Class of ... well, let's just skip that
faintest
idea
who
I was.
part. I have been to her last three
I turned, smile frozen on my face,
1 reunions, while attending none of
and there, confirming my worst
my own.
I enjoy going to Sherry's reunions. nightmare, was Sherry. You've heard
of the cat that
I know a lot of
swallowed
a
people in her class.
canary?
Sherry
We engage in scin-
looked as though
tillating chitchat,
she had just dis-
have a few drinks,
posed of an
grab some nosh
ostrich.
and go home.
At every subse-
It's not that I
quent
reunion, she
don't like the peo-
has
not
failed to
ple in my class.
remind
me
of this
Whenever I run
episode. And she
into one, I am
asks if I have seen
delighted to see
my "dream girl."
them. We catch up
We actually did
and show pictures
have
a conversa-
and promise to get
tion
at
one of
together and don't.
these
shindigs,
It's just that I
although I am
get edgy over the
fairly certain she
prospect of a criti-
still had no idea
cal mass of former
who
I
was.
classmates. I wasn't an especially
It was a nice reunion, though. I
happy kid at Mumford. I was shy,
was
especially delighted that
never quite figured out where I fit
Sherry's
class had invited my 12th
1 in. Writing had yet to unleash my
grade economics teacher, Mr.
1 superhuman powers and magnetic
Korczynski, and I finally had the
I charm.
chance to tell him in person that, as
I A roomful of Mumford, Class of
tough as his class was, it did more
...-well, let's just skip that part, too
... would run the risk of a giving me to prepare me for college than any
other course I ever took. I was glad
a one-way ticket back to Dorkville.
of that.
That insecure high school kid is
One fine individual who married
still skulking around inside all of us.
a classmate of Sherry's said he had
By the time Sherry grabbed her
admired my writing for many years
diploma, I was already a reporter
and
insisted on buying me a drink.
with the Free Press. Failing utterly at
That
doesn't happen too often. It
most assignments, but a big time
was
just
one terrific evening.
journalist nonetheless. So I have no
"Did you see your dream girl?"
George Cantor, a West Bloomfield
Sherry asked.
resident, is a native Detroiter and
"Yes, I did," I said. "In fact, I'm
longtime Detroit journalist. His e-mail ! going home with her."
address is gcantor@thejewishnews.com
ell,"
said my
wife as
we
drove home. "Did
you see your dream
girl?"
"I can't imagine to
whom you are possi-
bly referring," I
replied.
She laughed. It
wasn't a pleasant
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