Not everyone is still making high school milestones at the age of 81, but Marty Ingham Everett is someone with an intriguing and unique story.
According to The Washington Post, Everett — known as Martha Ina Ingham at the time — lost her purse at her high school of Jeffersonville High in Indiana. At some point, it slid down behind a cabinet in a science classroom and wasn't seen again until demolition crews started work for a 2019 renovation.
Everett's purse was an absolute treasure trove of items from the past
A compact, a comb, a lipstick, and a checkbook are essentials that purse-carrying people of any generation might find necessary. Finding a social security card and driver's license may also not be surprising.
But those who found the purse were surprised to find black and white photos from Everett's junior prom in 1954 — as well as three handwritten letters from different boys, according to The Washington Post.
When the school district found the missing handbag, it took to Facebook to try to locate the purse's owner, and of course, it found her
Public information officer Erin Bojorquez posted a plea for help in trying to locate Everett — and almost immediately, Everett's son found out about the bag and the connection was made.
The school mailed Everett — age 81, and now living in Florida — the handbag she probably hadn't thought about in years.
Everett told the Washington Post that "it was like opening a time capsule."
The three handwritten letters inside the bag were all from boys that Everett had dated
However, she only went to prom with one of them and it was quickly driving Facebook commenters wild to find out who.
Several commenters expressed sentiments such as "If you do find out who took her to prom will you update here?" on the school district's Facebook post.
The letters came from boys named Paul, Carter, and Torchy and looking at the photos obtained by the Washington Post.
However, it was Carter Williams in the accompanying prom photographs. Everett told the Washington Post, "He was my first boyfriend. I had an awful lot of things in my purse, but I know that the letter from Carter was special. That's why I kept it."
Both Everett and Williams didn't talk again after high school graduation — and both went on to marry different people and start families of their own. However, Williams told the Washington Post that Everett was also his first kiss — as well as his first love, "a real sweetheart, and a great gal."
INSIDER reached out to Everett for comment but did not immediately hear back.
