especially those kids with whom we forged special relationships, are always welcome in our lives. Unlike ex-wives and ex-girlfriends. A student who looks up his teacher after leaving school, a year or two or 20 later, confirms the love that once transpired in a classroom, the kind of love that happens when the educator’s passion for awakening the desire to learn is at any (usually unpredictable) moment rewarded by the light of inspiration in the student’s bright eyes, sudden knowing and flowing words. You give and they give back.