Reply #16: Yeah, quite a few. [View All]

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Some I just exchanged a few emails with, others I've stayed close to. After Katrina, I had several old friends and girlfriends who grew up on the Coast contact me. Most of us had moved away, and we all seemed to be trying to reconnect, possibly because of the destruction of so much of our old home.

The strangest one was the woman I sort of always regretted not marrying. I contacted her--not romantically, I was over that part--and found out she had just remarried a year before, and had been looking for me while she was divorced. After telling me how much she loved her new husband, she started asking if I was ever going to move back, and asking if I would see her the next time I went back there. Nothing unusual.

That wasn't the weird part--a couple of weeks into our conversations, I was scanning AM channels and randomly stopped on Dr. Laura. I didn't know it was Dr. Laura, because what stopped me was this man's sad and scared voice. He was telling the "Doctor" that he had found some emails his wife had sent to an old boyfriend that she had recently found online, and that she was trying to convince the old boyfriend to move back near her. He even mentioned they had only been married about a year--I've changed a couple of details here, just to keep it more anonymous. Point is, the few details I heard matched what this friend and I had been saying, very closely, only with a somewhat sinister interpretation of it.

I laughed, and thought I couldn't wait to tell this friend about it. But I never got to. She stopped writing to me, just then.

No, I doubt it was connected! It was just funny.