Time magazine also published a high school yearbook salutation（称呼，问候） to classmate Kelli Allman, the girlfriend of a pal¹: "You are extremely sweet and foxy, I don't know why Greg would want to spend any time with me at all! You really deserve better than clowns like us; you even laugh at my jokes!"

 

Also from Time magazine:

 

"Tucked away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish²（炫耀的） clothes and with an outdated³ 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze.

 

"The President of the United States is no different. These previously⁴ unpublished photos, obtained exclusively by TIME from Obama's schoolmate Kelli Allman (née McCormack), show a 17-year-old Barack Obama on the night of his senior prom.

 

"Barry spent in his days at the Punahou School in Hawaii studying, shooting hoops⁵ and goofing⁶ off with his friends. Greg Orme, a fellow varsity basketball player, was Obama's constant companion. 'They were like brothers,' says Allman.

 

"On prom night, the pair double-dated. Obama and his date Megan Hughes, a student at the Hawaii School for Girls at La Pietra, joined Orme at Allman's house, where the two couples sipped⁷ champagne⁸ before going to the dance and then an after-party. 'It was a really fun, happy time. We were all cracking up, and everyone was smiling,' says Allman. 'It was pretty typical from there out as far as what happens at prom: the dinner and the dancing and the photos.'

 

"Millions of American teenagers will go to proms this year. Their photos are more likely to be stored on Facebook than in a shoe box. But it's fun to imagine that in one of those pictures, there's a girl in a pastel dress or a lanky⁹ guy in a white sport coat who will end up becoming the leader of the free world."

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