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Name: Donald G. Tock
High School: Central High, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Year photo taken: 1957

Memory:
I met Paquita Calva at age 14 when a friend of hers telephoned my home by mistake. We were inseparable until age 19, and at age 17 enjoyed my senior prom in 1957. I was a poor boy from the inner city of Minneapolis and she from a well to do family in the suburbs. During our 5 years together her father did everything he could to keep us apart. He succeeded and she later married (for 12 years) the man of her father’s dream. BUT 30 years later I returned and eventually took her to another senior prom.

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Donald G. Tock

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Photos from: The 21st-Century American Prom »