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23. Really, he just has a way with words. His sixth grade teacher Renee Rosenblum-Lowden gushed to The Washington Post, "The thing I remember about Shawn is he took the reading test and he scored 12th grade in the sixth grade."
24. The admiration was mutual. Speaking with Letterman, the musician said, "I had a sixth-grade teacher. Her name was Ms. Lowden, and I just loved the class so much. Like reading the dictionary, and my love of words—I just connected with her. She took us to her house on a field trip. She had ice in her refrigerator way back when no one had it. I thought, 'Oh man. I might be an English teacher.'"