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Surprise! My Seventeen-Year-Old Self Wrote Me a Letter!

Surprise! My Seventeen-Year-Old Self Wrote Me a Letter!

by Rebecca Copeland | Jun 10, 2026 | Retirement

A number of years ago, I found a letter in my campus mailbox postmarked October 19, 2012. It originated from Raleigh, North Carolina, where I had gone to high school. The return address was from Stephen G. Takacs. The name sounded so familiar but I couldn’t place it...

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