Long Lost Friend

Jeff was one of those people you never expected to hear from again. As my second grade best friend, he's one of those people that will forever be ingrained into my childhood memories. Being that both of us have since moved from the elementary school where we met and that we hadn't heard from his family in a solid five years, I didn't expect to happen upon him in this lifetime. Still, fate has it's way of intervening.

Today, as I was "cleaning my room" (i.e. messing around on the Internet/teaching myself how to quilt), my mom brought me up this old e-mail, Jeff's mom, Dorene, had sent to use when I was in sixth grade right after we'd moved to Small Town America. It had Jeff's old e-mail address on it and she thought I should try it, but like most old e-mail address, it wasn't in use anymore so I got one of those UNABLE TO DELIVER notices back about two seconds after I'd sent the email. It was discouraging to say the least but I remained vigilant (or rather I didn't feel like cleaning my room yet).

So I typed in his parents' names and found an old race record with his parents and him listed as participants. I googled the name of the race and found out it was in Texas of all places. So I went to white pages and looked up all the people with his dad's first and last name in Texas and it turns out there's only one. I scribbled down the phone number and convinced my mom to call and IT WAS THEM!!! I felt really proud of myself coupled with intense curiosity. Remember I haven't heard from them in five years.

Turns out he's 6'3" playing football as a junior in high school. Who knew! My mom got their e-mail and she's going to send some pictures and hopefully they'll send some back. I can't wait to see what he looks like. I haven't actually seen him in seven years so he's obviously a load different. God must have been on my side because I didn't expect to ever hear from them again.

All to think it started with an old email...