By Ed - An unexpected benefit of the caregiver's article




This was really very surprising. A woman read the article, then sent an email to the reporter. She was looking through their wedding album, and came across a picture of my wife and me at their wedding in 1961. She asked him to forward it to me, which he did. I have never seen the picture before, since right after the wedding, they moved about 150 miles from us. Her husband and I played baseball together when in our teens. Our paths never crossed again, and she said her husband is now in a MCF with alzheimer's, and has been there for about a year. While I was thrilled about the picture, I was very sorry to hear about her husband. I'm going to try to get in touch with her, but not sure where she is living.
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Ed, what a serendipitous event. Perhaps you can go through the reporter to whom she sent the email & photo? At least, start with her email address?
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I believe the reporter would agree to contact her and see if she would want your information or if she would want him to pass her information on to you.
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I actually have her email address and her phone number because he forwarded her email to me. But I didn't want to use it and make her think he passed it on to me without her approval. I did ask him to ask her if she would mind if I contacted her. It's been a very long time since I've seen her, and I was surprised that she even recognized my wife and me in the pic.
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