Former Students

I've been teaching long enough, and I'm getting old enough, that former students turn up in strange situations.  One of my friends was diagnosed with breast cancer last fall and had a mastectomy.  Her oncologist's intern was a former student.  Another friend went to her son's engagement party and met the identical twin of her soon-to-be daughter-in-law's mother.  (That's a lot of hyphens...and confusing.)  Anyway, my friend was her sixth grade teacher.  The mother of the bride was in the other class and hated her teacher.  I haven't run into former students yet (except finding them in arrest records in the paper), but it's just a matter of time.