Internet Magic

This morning like any other day I checked my e-mail, Facebook, and MySpace to see if I had any new messages. To my utter delight and shock my very best friend from the 1st and 2nd Grade has found me on MySpace and wrote a short note. She was packing up to move from San Francisco to New York and found an old box of letters from Erin Hanson..."if your parents' names are Rod and Kathy and you had a pet rabbit named Cloud, do you remember me?"

So many childhood memories instantly came flooding back. I'm really rather speechless. YunHee and I cried when her family moved to Michigan when we were eight years old. I remember going over to her house one last time and feeling like a piece of my heart was moving across the country. We exchanged letters faithfully from that time until through 8th grade or so, and then just lost track of each other...

...I can't believe that after 17 years she's found me again. I immediately wrote back and so did she, recounting so many details of early elementary school that I remember too...all of the old kids in our class, spelling bees, reading groups...she's never met Michael (my brother) but knows about him from my letters, she knows my parents' house, she wonders how they are...I'm totally overwhelmed. I have her address now and she has mine and we are going to try & exchange letters once again...

Internet magic!!