Ok...I really like Facebook. It's fun to see the faces you remember as a kid from whatever school you went to. I've talked to a lot of people i went to high school with and known along the way here and there. I like seeing how they've changed and see what they're doing in life.
But.... there's always a but... last night I searched a name of a girl I hung out with when I was 10 and 11 in West Virginia. The city was different, but I figured she moved from her hometown. I sent her a message and asked if she was the same person I knew then in that city. it's been 28 years since I've talked to this person, but she looked like she could be the same as my childhood friend. I got an email from her today and she said she had lived in that city once, but in the 80's after I moved away. She wasn't the same person. The girl with the same name she had heard was killed in a car accident about 12 years ago.
How sad. Finding people is a lot of fun. This was the downer part.