AUBURN — A bundle of letters arrived at Edward Little High School earlier this month that made seniors blush.

In one letter, Abby L’Heurex was reminded how she used to love the Jonas Brothers.

Mike Abbascia read about his crush on one girl while dating another.

And how the then eighth-graders couldn’t wait to turn 21 so they could party. Some things haven’t changed.

In a page out of Brad Paisley’s “Letter to Me” song, some Edward Little seniors who had Liz Rollins for an eighth grade teacher recently received letters they wrote to themselves.

Rollins, who last year quit her job to be a full-time mother, said she assigned the “letters to me” exercise four years ago, and recently mailed the letters to students.

L’Heureux, 17, said she was shocked when she read what she wrote; she laughed so hard she cried.

“It is so embarrassing,” L’Heureux said. “For my favorite music I wrote, “’Anything from the Jonas Brothers.’ The ‘love of my life,’ I wrote, was Nick Jonas.” She insisted that she stopped listening to the Jonas Brothers once she hit high school.

Angelica Baker, 17, wrote four years ago that her favorite music was rap, hip-hop and metal. She still likes rap and hip-hop, but not metal. In the eighth grade she liked to draw, color and paint in her free time. Now she has no free time.

“When I get out of school I rush home, change for work, go to work,” she said. “By the time I get out of work I’m so tired I don’t want to do anything.” In addition to her full course load at high school, she works as a dietary aide at Clover Manor nursing home and is taking a sociology class at Central Maine Community College in Auburn.

Jacob McLoughlin, 18, was amused at how much he hadn’t changed, “but I matured a lot more.”

His interests are the same, he said. His favorite music is rap, he still has the same friends, likes the same action games and the same shows, “South Park” and “Family Guy.”

In the eighth grade he was a prankster. “I’d flip a pencil in the middle of a lesson. Everyone said, ‘Oh, who did that?’” he recalled with a smile.

Disrupting lessons is a thing of the past, McLoughlin said. “I was kind of an idiot back then,” he said.

Mike Abbascia, 17, wrote in the eighth grade that his favorite music was by Lady Gaga. “I don’t listen to Lady Gaga now,” he said. “I like rap.”

The love of his life, he wrote four years ago, was “Holly,” whose last name was not included.

He wrote, “I cannot live without Holly.” His dream when he graduated, “I want to date Holly.” His whole letter seemed to be about Holly, he said with amusement. And at the time he wrote the letter, he was dating a girl named Alex.

Abbascia said he’s a changed man. “I’m more mature.” He doesn’t have a crush on Holly anymore. “She’s my friend.”

Students said the letters-to-me exercise was fun, and showed how much people can change.

Rollins said she assigned the writing task after students finished some tough testing. The assignment was to be fun. “They loved it,” she said. When she was in eighth grade her teacher assigned the same task. Four or five years after she wrote her eighth-grade letter, she read about her first boyfriend.

“Turns out I ended up marrying that first boyfriend,” Rollins said.

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