at the dentist's

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I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointmentrendez-vous with a new dentist. I noticed her DMD diplomadiplôme de dentiste on the wall, which displayed her full name. Suddenly I remembered a tall, sexy, dark-haired girlfille with the same name who’d beenqui avait été in my high schoollycée class some 30-odd years agoenviron 30 ans plus tôt. Could this be the same galfille I’d had a secret, burning crushcoup de cœur on back then?

When she came in, howevercependant, I quickly discardedabandonnai any such thought. This grey-hairedaux cheveux gris woman with sagging breastsseins qui tombent was far too old to have been my classmatecamarade de classe.

After she examined my teeth, I asked if she had attendedfréquenté Maryville High School.

“As a matter of factEn effet… yes, I did. I'm a Red Rebel,” she said, gleaming with priderayonnante de fierté.

“When did you graduateobtenir ton diplôme?” I asked.

“In 1979. Why do you ask?”

“You were in my class!” I exclaimedm'écriai-je.

She looked at me closely. Then that ageingvieillissante, old, wrinkle-facedcouverte de rides, grey-haired, decrepit woman with sagging boobsnénés qui tombent asked, “What did you teach?”

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Vocabulary

DMD diploma: Doctor of Dental Medicine degree

crush: strong romantic attraction (colloquial)

gleaming with pride: shining ↔ beaming because of pride

sagging breasts ↔ sagging boobs: breasts that have lost firmness (due to age)

I have an appointmentrendez-vous with the dentist tomorrow.

He had a huge crushcoup de cœur on her in secondary school.

She was gleaming with priderayonnante de fierté when her son graduated.

Grammar

1. Past perfect for earlier past events: “who’d ↔ who had been in my class”, “I’d had ↔ I had had a secret crush”.
2. Reported questions (no inversion, no question mark): “I asked if she had attended…”, “Why do you ask?” → indirect: She asked why I asked.
3. Exclamations: “You were in my class!” I exclaimed.

By the time I arrived, the film had already started.

He asked me where I had been the night before.

Synonyms & Alternatives

crush: infatuation, puppy love, a thing for someone

grey-haired: silver-haired, white hair

sagging breasts: drooping bosom, pendulous breasts

Mini Dialogue

Patient: You look familiar. Were we at university together?

Dentist: Possibly. When did you graduate?

Patient: 1998!

Dentist: Oh… and what subject did you teach?

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