year because she was scared.”
Another said, “He normally carries crackers in case kids skipped breakfast.”
A teacher replied, “He once noticed one of my students had no gloves in January and quietly brought him a pair the next day.”
Then former students began appearing in the comments. They were not children anymore, but adults with their own lives, families, and memories.
By nine o’clock that night, the post had been shared all over town.
It turned out almost everybody had a Mr. Walter story.
People remembered the way he
