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Former Student Reunites With a Diary From His Sixth Grade After 33 Years A retired Canadian teacher, who couldn’t bear to throw away unclaimed diaries from his classes’ creative writing projects in the 198os, has tracked down many of his former students. With the help of social media, Hugh Brittian, 78, sent the time capsules, replete with preteen secrets, opinions, and ambitions, back to their original owners. One of them was Austin Hutton, 45, who now lives in Fort St. John, British Colu...

Dear Diary: Today I got a message from my Grade 6 self Austin Hutton’s hands were shaking when he got the package, a portal to the past tucked into a plain manila envelope. It was his diary, written in 1988, when he was a student at Havelock Elementary School. Social Sharing