A memory sweet and silly

Time, with its selective forgetfulness has a powerful analgesic effect, as we all know (if you don't know it yet, you'll discover it soon).  As my time as a teacher moves away, I am assailed by memories of that time, sweet and silly, at the most inopportune hours.  This morning, for example, I had the memory of a 14 year old boy ( I was teaching his course at 8 o'clock in the morning) who was waiting for me in the hallway on the way to his class and he received me saying things like this: "How handsome you are today Don Manuel!