India, March 3 -- An Amritsar-based software engineer recently found herself in a moment of sheer surprise when she received a reply from her former school computer teacher-a staggering nine years after submitting her homework.

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Preksha Mahajan, who had studied in Class VII back in 2016, took to X (formerly Twitter) to share the bizarre yet amusing incident. "Just checked out my mail and saw my computer teacher who used to teach me in 7th class replied to my mail after 9 years!" she wrote, leaving users both amused and intrigued.

The email in question was initially sent on June 30, 2016, when a young Preksha had submitted her assignment....