I Wasn’t Looking for My First Love – but When a Student Chose Me for a Holiday Interview Project, I Learned He’d Been Searching for Me for 40 Years

I’m a 62-year-old literature teacher who thought December would be the usual routine—until a student’s holiday interview question unearthed an old story I’d buried for decades. A week later, she burst into my classroom with her phone, and everything shifted.

I’m 62F, and I’ve been a high school literature teacher for almost four decades. My life has a rhythm: hall …