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Prom Photos From Our Readers

Name: Mike Riley
High School: Gonzaga Preparatory, Spokane, WA
Year photo taken: 1955

Memory:
I'm the date! We were such an ITEM then! Did we marry? Yes, but not to each other. He just found me on the computer last year, and after over 50 years of not seeing one another, he will escort me to my 56th Reunion for the Class of '56 this summer! This was Gonzaga's Junior-Senior Prom; we were both juniors then. Please see second photo of my Senior Prom with him the next year! He took me, with other fellows from his class and their dates, to a dinner that was so enormous that I was afraid I would split the seams of my just-a-tad-too-tight formal! But it was a wonderful evening!!

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Mike Riley

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Photos from: The 21st-Century American Prom »