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I think sometimes people think it's been too long since they contacted someone just to say hello. They think it would be awkward to speak to them. I've done that before. Now I just contact them. If they seem to not like it, they'll never hear from me again. As it is I've been in contact now with ex-coworkers and other friends years after we worked or went to school together.
I have a very close family, i'm closer to my Grandma than my mother.
There are a few Family members who I do not want in my life anymore, though they keep trying to push their way in.
There is no way they could ever rebuild the burnt bridges.
I speak to quite a few HS friends and past co-workers that I have re-connected to via facebook.
Sometimes it's best losing touch with people, and other times finding people who have passed through our lives is a wonderful thing. Inevitably, we all have life experiences and discover who we want to keep in touch with, and we would just as soon forget...
When we lose contact with a family member or friend.
My best chum from high school seemed to fall off the planet in about 1982. I'm pretty good at skip-tracing people, as I did it for many years at my job and had good resources available to me that the average person does not. But I swear, it was as though "Donna" was in the witness protection program or something. I couldn't find a trace of her.
Out of the blue, in 1997, she called me! It was great. We talked for hours and had several phone calls close together. In early 1998 we both got our first PCs and exchanged e-mail addresses. After the first message, she disappeared again and her e-mail account was closed, her phone number disconnected, and stuff I snail-mailed to her was returned to me. It's the weirdest thing!
I still live in the same place, with the same phone number as in 1997, so if Donna wanted to contact me, she would have no problem. I'm also listed in the white pages, so she could find me online.
One Christmas, I think in 1999, she sent me a Christmas card with a photo of her and her sons, but there was no return address or other contact info with it.
Location: I never said I was perfect so no refunds here sorry!
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When I think back about friends well........we all went our own way and life's journey took place.
Can't say I miss a single one of them..not to mean any disrespect whatsoever, if I seen one I'd be happy and say hi, perhaps be reminiscent to some degree ah but depending on the attitude maybe not at all.
Family is another story I wish it was like it was back in the day when we were children when all the family would get together and enjoy the day picnicking, drinking, laughing and having fun!
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