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| Classmates Makes My Day | | Date Created: Jul 28, 2006, 12:43 AM |
I finally have a few minutes to blog about the service called CLASSMATES, and how it has finally been able to prove useful to me.
I joined Classmates many, many years ago, when I was still learning how to use the internet (remember the AOL years, everybody?). I may have even gotten there by a pure trick of advertising. Since I was an early member, sign up was free, and I posted some contact information in the hopes that I'd hear from some former classmates. There was one in particular who I was dying to hear from. One of my oldest best friends from elementary school, who had joined the Navy after High School, and who I had the pleasure of catching up with at our 10th High School Reunion, so many years ago now. We'd lost touch again, but I had hoped that somehow we'd be able to reach each other via Classmates. I would check periodically to see if he'd joined. I would hope that somehow I'd be alerted if he ever wrote.
Well, last week, I was pleasantly surprised when a note arrived in my old AOL mail. I don't use the AOL software any longer, and was just taking a moment to empty out some old email, when I spotted a note from my dear friend, Les. It seems he had decided to reach out to me that very week, out of sheer coincidence, and he wanted to know more about where I was in life. He updated me on the status of his own life (which sounded spectacular, by the way), and hoped I'd see the letter. Who'd ever think I would. I was able to finally, after all of the years, re-establish contact with him, and I am so thrilled beyond belief. I hope that this time we'll be able to catch up properly and maybe even form a small reunion of our own close friends. After all, we are all reaching that age when...
Anyway, I wanted to share my joy in finding my oldest best pal. There are a couple more people I'm hoping to hear from, and then I can rest assured that we've all made it this far, happy, healthy and full of fond remembrance of our younger years. |
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