I've just made contact with a woman I haven't seen since 1971. No, not an old flame. She introduced me to a woman she worked with at a department store in Tallahassee. A few weeks later she packed her bags and moved to Atlanta to the mild consternation of my roomie, who'd been dating her. The woman she worked with became my wife and the mother of my four faithful readers of this blog. Leni, who introduced us, has never known until today what she'd done! She was amazed that I found her, and frankly so was I.
To put this in perspective, when I was a boy we moved from Tarpon Springs to Clearwater, about sixteen miles down the road. It was as if we'd moved to the dark side of the Moon. I lost all track of kids I'd known in elementary school, partly due to lack of continuing interest but mainly because it was a long distance call back to Tarpon Springs and nobody had even dreamed of the Internet yet.
About 18 months ago I made contact with one of my best buddies in the Army, thanks to classmates dot com. That was cool because we haven't seen each other since 1968. This is cooler, because until today Leni was totally unaware that, but for her, I might still be looking for the right woman to marry and my four faithful readers might still be shopping the Earth for parents to be born to.
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that's so cool! i hope that one day if i ever do something that results in something so cool, that the person hunts me down and tells me. i bet you made her day, if not her week. warm fuzzies.
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