I found an old crush from elementary school. I didn’t find him on Facebook. I did it the old-fashioned way. I road my bike passed his house seven times a day until one day he finally came out to get his mail and I said, “Warren? Warren Beatty? Fancy meeting you here!”

Okay. Not really. That’s the OLD old-fashioned way. I internet stalked and I found my first Asian crush with the famous American actor’s name when I was doing research for a manuscript I was writing. I was hovering over a very charged memory and I needed to find classmates from Selser Elementary who could remember our former teacher’s name. She was murdered.

I had written to the largest newspaper in the area, The Springfield Union-News, that might have the story in their archives but without her name nor a ballpark estimate on dates, they couldn’t help me. The school closed in 1972 when Westover Air Force Base closed, so I couldn’t contact school staff. They were long gone.

The only student I could remember from elementary school was Warren Beatty. I had to find Warren if I stood a chance at getting the story from the archives. Hopefully, he would be able to recall her name....[more HERE]