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yendiYears ago, I signed up for a free account at classmates.com, the website that keeps track of your high school classmates, as long as they remember to sign up with them as well. Seeing as there are few folks from high school I care much about, and that just as few of them appear to be online, it's not something I ever paid attention to. I log in two or three times a year to see if anyone else is online, but that's about it.
Having just gottenspam an email reminder from them, I logged in. And saw that my high school was up to seven people registered. The new person was named Sarah Brown, and attended Collegiate from 1985-1990, according to her entry.
But here's the rub: Collegiate was, and is, and all-boys school.
It's also a small school. My graduating class, which was damned large for the school, had 53 people.
So, there are two possibilities. "Sarah Brown" might be someone who, intentionally (as a joke), or unintentionally (because she went to a different school with "collegiate" in its name, and didn't pay attention to the location section) added herself to the "Collegiate" alumni section. Or, a classmate of mine, sometime in the last thirteen years, has undergone a sex-change operation (or is in the preparatory stages for doing so).
I know that the former is more likely, but the latter, frankly, is more intriguing. I wouldn't pretend to have the slightest idea of who from my graduating class would be a likely candidate (I mean, I'm talking 53 eighteen-year-old boys, all of whom carry the baggage associated with attending an all-male school for anywhere from three-twelve years; repression ran rampant). But I'd love to see the reaction such a revelation would elicit. Who'd take it in stride? Who'd flip out? I could no more predict that than I could predict who would switch genders in the first place. But I think I'd learn more about how my classmates turned out that way than I do from the occasional newsletters I receive.
Whereas, if it was all just a mistake, the possibilities are just boring. :-(
(aside: "Sarah Brown" was not the real name I saw on my Classmates page, for obvious reasons).
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But here's the rub: Collegiate was, and is, and all-boys school.
It's also a small school. My graduating class, which was damned large for the school, had 53 people.
So, there are two possibilities. "Sarah Brown" might be someone who, intentionally (as a joke), or unintentionally (because she went to a different school with "collegiate" in its name, and didn't pay attention to the location section) added herself to the "Collegiate" alumni section. Or, a classmate of mine, sometime in the last thirteen years, has undergone a sex-change operation (or is in the preparatory stages for doing so).
I know that the former is more likely, but the latter, frankly, is more intriguing. I wouldn't pretend to have the slightest idea of who from my graduating class would be a likely candidate (I mean, I'm talking 53 eighteen-year-old boys, all of whom carry the baggage associated with attending an all-male school for anywhere from three-twelve years; repression ran rampant). But I'd love to see the reaction such a revelation would elicit. Who'd take it in stride? Who'd flip out? I could no more predict that than I could predict who would switch genders in the first place. But I think I'd learn more about how my classmates turned out that way than I do from the occasional newsletters I receive.
Whereas, if it was all just a mistake, the possibilities are just boring. :-(
(aside: "Sarah Brown" was not the real name I saw on my Classmates page, for obvious reasons).