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Charite Stevens enrolled in New Life Christian School in Longview, Texas, bringing a guardian with her and indicating her age as 15. “She acted like a 15-, 16-year-old. She was an attentive student, respectful, did her homework,” said principal Stuart Newlin. Tamica Lincoln took Stevens into her home when she said she needed a place to stay. “I sympathized with her, and invited her into my home. I took her in as a child, did her hair, got her clothes and shoes,” Lincoln said. Lincoln started to suspect that Stevens was using a fake identity and called police. Investigators now allege that Stevens is really Charity Johnson, 34, and falsified her name and birthdate to attend the school. Everyone at the school had been convinced she was a teenager. “The why? Nobody seems to know why,” Newlin said. (MS/AP) ...Some people will do anything to relive their “wonder years.”
Original Publication Date: 25 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.

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