Wow! Miriam, a belated birthday greeting. 80 is a landmark day. For
one thing, it means you've beat the odds and lived beyond the three
score and ten that the Bible allows us.
Roger, your adventures in locating long lost friends through Face Book
is tempting, but I'm not ready to open that Pandora's Box. At one
point a few years back I labored long and hard and located a number of
old school buddies and my boss at the Drapery Factory. My first two
attempts found that those buddies had died, but I did strike up a
renewed friendship with my one friend's widow. We chat from time to
time, but she mostly spends time telling me that she's praying for my
lost Soul. My boss, the only decent management person in all the
Drapery Business, had moved to Los Angeles after the Seattle factory
closed. I found his number and called. His wife answered the phone.
At least this tire old voice told me that this was the once lively,
energetic young woman I'd worked alongside. "Bill died ten years ago
from a heart attack", she told me. And then she spent the rest of our
conversation asking questions about my cousin, who had also worked at
the Sweat Shop. Very ego deflating. I also made the mistake of
joining Linked In. Try as I might I can't seem to make them go away.
So from time to time I get messages from people really wanting to link
with me. When my cousin in Minnesota showed up requesting to link
with me, I called her and told her I was not linking with anyone, even
one as sweet as she. Her surprise was genuine. She had never
requested to link with me. This made me wonder just how many of those
requests were merely randomly done by the mysterious Linked In.
Carl Jarvis
On 8/6/17, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was 80 years old on Wednesday. Now that's really old! You're just older
than you were. (smile)
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Facebook Finds Another One
If you ever want to look up someone you used to know I think I can recommend
Facebook after some successes. I have already told you about at least one
person I found on Facebook from my sighted past. I have found a few others
too, but I didn't feel close enough to them to actually contact them. Well,
I just found another one who I did just contact. There was a little girl I
used to babysit. I met her when she was two years old. The last time I saw
her before losing my eyesight she was seven. The last time I saw her in the
sense of being in the same room with her she was just about a month short of
her twelfth birthday.
The last time I spoke to her was on the phone on her fourteenth birthday.
Well, I was just thinking about her and I did a search for her on Facebook.
I was surprised at how easy it was to find her. I sent her a friend request
and a message asking her if she remembered me. Within five minutes my friend
request was accepted and she answered me telling me that she could never
forget me and asked if I remembered a certain song someone had made up about
me. I didn't remember the song. It was probably sung behind my back because
it was making fun of me. But I forgive the song writer, someone else I
haven't spoken to for decades.
What blows my mind is that that little girl is now thirty-six years old and
approaching her thirty-seventh birthday in December. Sheesh! I'm getting too
old too fast!
