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To: LindyBill who wrote (98440)	2/3/2005 8:18:25 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793684

The real crime was that she drove to school that day in an Edsel A grandmother unburdens her conscience: Number 2 Pencil GYPSUM, Colo. - An high school graduate has confessed to cheating on an English literature test — 47 years ago. Eagle Valley High School Principal Mark Strakbein said he got a one-page, handwritten letter from a 65-year-old grandmother of five who admitted she and a friend stole the answers to a Shakespeare test in the fall of 1957. "I know it makes no difference now (after 47 years), except maybe this will keep some student from cheating and help them to be honest — conscience never lets you forget — there is forgiveness with God, and I have that, but I felt I still needed to confess to the school." Strakbein didn't release the woman's name but said he confirmed she graduated in 1958 from Eagle County High School, which has since been consolidated into Eagle Valley High. My favorite part is this: Strakbein said he read the letter aloud to every homeroom class as a lesson in following your conscience. "You could have heard a pin drop," he said. It's very sweet, and charitable, of Strakbein to assume that the silence on the part of the teenagers was due to sober reflection. I think it's quite possible, though, that at least some of them were thinking, "She's HOW old? And she still REMEMBERS taking a test on Shakespeare? Man, I don't plan to remember this test NEXT WEEK." And so on.