“Unlike the aging and cranky teachers in the city school, my new sixth-grade teacher was young and hip. She looked a lot like Karen Carpenter, and was married to a doctor.”
Karen Carpenter wasn’t famous when the Monkees were on.
(I enjoyed your post, don’t get me wrong).
I know. When I saw Karen Carpenter, I thought she looked familiar. Then, some time later, I realized she looked like Mrs. -------, my teacher.