Dena Charvat:  

I think the one thing that would surprise people the most about seeing me again is that I am much more outgoing than I used to manifest in highschool. Though I always cared about people, I was and am very introspective. I was very shy, due to some difficult life experiences. With a lot of help from the Lord, I have overcome that, and am able to reach out to people now. The other, more obvious thing, is that I no longer am extremely thin;-) The teacher I would most like to see again is Mrs. Raese. She was a very couragous woman, who had a great many setbacks in life to overcome. Her husband had had a stroke, and her youngest son had Downs Syndrome. Perhaps many of you remember the person wandering around town with a bazooka on his shoulder--"Normal Norman", people called him. I would have been embarassed about that. But now, I also think how great our town was that it was safe for a disabled person such as Norman to be able to wander around and still be safe. You know, when I first saw Mrs. Raese, I took an immediate dislike to her, because she was not as attractive as some other teachers, and her manner of speech left something to be desired, too, but when I got to k...Expand for more