Well, they aren’t really lost, but I haven’t spoken to them in a long time. Angie over at Fluid Pudding had a sweet post about a man that she was once good friends with but lost touch. She found out this past week that he had died, and was sad that she hadn’t been able to keep in touch with him over the years.
Her post caused me to go on a rampage to find people I had once been friends with. :detective: MySpace was the first place I hit up, and I managed to find two more people that I was friends with back in the raving days. Another person I found was an old co-worker who came to my wedding nine years ago and when he later moved to Austin, TX we eventually lost contact.
But the hardest person was actually someone that I rediscovered this weekend while cleaning out the closet. I found a bunch of old papers from college including a letter that a friend of mine sent when he left school to go back to his home state. My friend Ace actually reminds me of Jimmy a lot and I think it’s why I was initially drawn to Ace when I met him. Anyway, Jimmy and I were REALLY good friends in college to the point where some people thought we were dating (we weren’t – he was gay, and I’m not a man, so there goes that). So I went online and started doing searches for Jimmy and lo and behold I eventually found a couple references to him. And not only that, but Yahoo was kind enough to show me his phone number. Now, I know it’s that Jimmy because 1) I know he still lives in his original home area, 2) I know what he did for a living, and 3) I know his middle initial and he’s the only one that pops up with that middle initial.
So I called the number. :eyepop: And left a message. And left my number. So we’ll see if he calls back. If it’s him, I know he’ll call back – I doubt he would have forgotten me. And if he did then SHAME ON HIM!! :whatever:
Her post was certainly sobering.
Sooooo…did the guy call back, yet?! :tongue: