I found Anna - Missing her by a mere full stop
I found Anna
This is a very happy moment for me, I have been searching for a Swedish friend that I met working in Eilat Isreal. We were separated due to her returning to Sweden, But she stayed in touch with me and one day at work I received a call from my Dad saying that there is a blonde girl with a huge backpack, without shoes sitting in front of our house on the pavement. Now if you know Anna you would know that that was exactly Anna. Barefoot always, beautiful, blonde and just always full of fun, happy and content with the basics of life. Living and loving to live. She was stunning and magnetic.
I was ecstatic and couldn’t wait to get home. The drive from JHB to Vereeniging which lasts about 40min was treacherous. I was racing through peak hour traffic like I had an emergency.
She had taken the train from JHB to Vereeniging and found the address that I once scribbled on a piece of paper in Israel. That was the last time I saw Anna from Sweden.
I have been through so much since then and her and I lost contact over the years, sadly, and recently I have been in contact with another special friend from Sweden that I met in Eilat. Klara, whom is dating a South African guy and pregnant with his baby. After looking everywhere for Anna on facebook, my space, Lost Amigos, her old cell phone number, where I received some Swedish babble saying stop sending me message, I found Klara again. And she helped me get in touch with Anna.
I was sending Anna emails left right and center over the years and the emails always came back. After seeing the email from her in my gmail account, through teary eyes I realised that I had the correct email adress I was just missing a full stop between her first and last name.
Is that not unbelievably frustrating and unthinkable - that you can miss out on years of a very good friends life by a mere full stop. I am elated this morning to have made contact with her, even if only with a mail. I saw her photo and started crying, I am just so very happy to have found her.
And so very sad that I have been missing out on so much of her life by a mere full stop.
Oh Anna, I found Anna
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
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