Sera_ past tense

Two college friends were gossiping about classmates. One friend told the other that a student in his Spanish class had a new girlfriend. The other friend said that a student in his History class had a new boyfriend. They told the names of the two lovers and found out that the woman in the Spanish class was the girlfriend of the man in the History class. They told this gossip to many other classmates. Soon it was in the gossip section of the school newspaper.

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Sera,

Your rewriting of the story is 100% correct.