# @smeharbinger on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYS_9y1pEHb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65548465-smeharbinger-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/5cff2f40f9.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-05-13T23:13:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Harbinger (@SMEHarbinger) — https://gondola.cc/SMEHarbinger

## Caption

In 1996, then 22-year-old marketing teacher Mercedes Rasmussen walked through SM East’s glass double doors with a plan.

Teach for five years and then find a job in the business sector.

But let’s just say Rasmussen’s five-year plan didn’t go how she’d intended.

“I think my students keep me young,” Rasmussen said. “They make me laugh every single day when I come to work and put smiles on my face, and they just give me that little pep in my step that I think I need. I know that that will be a part of my life that I miss.”

To read more, click the link in bio.

#storybychristopherlong
#socialmediabyevelynbagley
#artbylibbymarsh
#designbylibbymarsh

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