Ben Ulansey, a 2015 graduate of Cheltenham High School, published a story in Medium titled “What I Learned From My 10-Year High School Reunion” on Wednesday, May 4.

An excerpt:

It seemed that in the years since high school, many of us had separately arrived at the conclusion that Cheltenham was somewhere special — and that wandering off into the professional world didn’t demand us putting an ocean between ourselves and our Alma Mater. With nearly a hundred guests crammed into a room more properly fit for forty, I was both content and a tad disappointed not to talk more intimately about the weighty ten years since high school. About the pandemic and President Trump. About TikTok, artificial intelligence, and the phones that unlock with our faces.

One of the most interesting aspects of the reunion was the level of relief and elation people found in just seeing a flood of old faces once again. What we talked about often wasn’t all that important. The careers and cities people had each landed in melded into a lovably drunken blur.

For more of Ulansey’s published stories, you can click here.

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Photos: Ben Ulansey