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Vague and very veiled
Recollections of the past
Gently glide by me,
Then too quicky disappear --
When I grope for them, they're gone.

--James Kahn, CHS 230

Mirror -- Published by the students of the Central High School of Philadelphia, is the oldest High School Magazine in the United States. Volume 84, number 2 -- May, 1969.

James Kahn was a classmate in my ninth-grade English class at Central High School, taught by Mr. Elliott Cades. We were not friends. But we spoke on the telephone several years ago; Mr. Kahn was in charge of a recent class reunion. I reminded him that we were in the same English class in ninth grade. "Mr. Cades? How could I forget that?"

Another student in that class -- in fact he sat next to me the entire school year -- was Elliott R. Feldman, Esq., now a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Cozen O'Connor. Mr. Feldman is a brilliant young man. I shipped him a copy of my book Significant Moments some time ago. Mr. Feldman and I were not friends and, in fact, never spoke a word to each other.

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