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***A story I have to tell you!
9/3/08First let me apologize for a long delay in posting.
The power of the Internet is incredible. I want to share a story with you tonight. On 6/11/08 I posted a photo of Anita here a few days after I met her on the streets of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (http://www.fotolog.com/mashuga/60093291) Her story is posted here. She had been released from a drug program a few days before and had slipped back into her addiction. We talked and she relayed to me that she had been lost and separated from her son for a long while and would like to someday find him. She gave me some bare bones information, which I took and promised to post here with her story. I put her on a bus back to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania that is at the complete other side of the state, a six or seven hour drive from Wilkes-Barre. I posted here that I had some potential contact information if anyone could find her son Jonathan. Well you did it! Someone out there found him. I could hardly believe it when I received an email from Jonathan. Someone unknown to Jonathan and myself sent him an email telling him about his mothers picture and the wish to find him again. He said in that first email “I haven't spoken with my mother in a very long time and wasn't sure if she was even still alive.” He went on in his email, “I actually didn’t see your site until a guy that I didn’t even know, contacted me through facebook” “I responded back, curious because I didn’t know him and told him that I did live (name of town) there and asked how he knew that, and who he was. He then told me that we didn’t know each other but he had seen your site and he gave me the link to it.” I dug through my notes and found a number that Anita said she might be able to be reached at. I left that info with Jonathan and waited a few days. He got back to me that the person at that number had not had any contact with Anita for months. I was really disheartened and went back over my notes again. Scrawled in almost unintelligible writing was another telephone number. I called Jonathan back again and gave him this new number with the caution that I could hardly read it and it was a long shot. (My thinking) Later this morning Jonathan called me with the wonderful news, he had reconnected with his mother. I couldn’t believe it! After six years they had found each other. Wow. Later this morning I called Anita and had a chance to talk to her. She had only moved to this phone number four days ago. She was so emotional that she had talked to Jonathan after all these years. She got me all choked up and I learned that Jonathan has three children (Anita’s Grandchildren) she has never seen and had no idea they were even born. This is a “developing story and I will keep you up to date. Anita told me she has been clean from drugs just a short while (days) but she told me she had watched a friend die just recently and with her newly found son and grandchildren she has a new found series of reasons to get clean for good. I know how hard it is after all my years watching so many people on the street struggle with sobriety. But there have been a few that I know have made it. Anita I pray you take your chance. I thank you all for using this site to do some real good, and for you Jonathan to as you said in your email, “so I can tell my mother that I love her and miss her and that she is not alone in this world.” Hey you got it! God bless you all!
Guestbook Comments (56)
WOW THIS STORY IS AMAZING, MY STORY IS SIMILAR BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN MY MOM IN AT LEAST 20 YEARS, THE LAST TIME I SAW HER I WAS 12 YEARS OLD NOW I'M 33, BUT I NEVER REALLY KNEW HER AT ALL, GREW UP WITH MY GRANDMA, AND MY DAD'S FAMILY, BUT THE DAY I SAW HER YOU COULD TELL SHE WAS HIGH ON SOMETHING....SAD :(I FEEL FOR HER BUT TO BE HONEST CAN'T SAY I LOVE HER, CAUSE I NEVER REALLY KNEW HER... WISH HER THE BEST THOUGH... THIS STORY IS SO WONDERFUL, IS NEVER TOO LATE TO TURN IT ALL AROUND, AT LEAST FOR THESE FOLKS, GOD BLESS YOU TOO.
hola me pase...=)
espero que estde de mil...=)=)
buen viernes... de buenis...
beosos y saludos...=)=)=)
Pasate... ^_^`
joakomc_mdp@hotmail.com
^^joa^^...
supportin human nature..
livin d right path, makin a quality difference in ppl´s lifes
livin a footprint wid human kind love n care.
keep alive bringin live 4 life
Hello i am paUla.I am from Argentina. She is beautiful!!!! :$$ . You that him ours is impossible. But I would love... not you something. Do you see Dancing For a Dream? Me nr. So prune you!!! already this, don't bother me but.... I told you that him ours is impossible!!!!! coarse!!!
are :$$ caniia agregame a effess :$$
dedjo mcn pau_lucila@live.com.ar
I'm note very good at speaking in english because I'm from Argentina, but I have to say that I saw all the pictures from your fotolog page (yes, all) and I'm shocked because of your work. I think that the things you make are just amazing. I really want to do the amazing things that you do, and I do not really think that you make this because "someone has to do it", you do it because is you passion, and your passion is 'passioning' me to try to do the same thing as you.
Well, I am not very good at trying to explain myself with what I am thinking... Just words do not come.
I tell you... I'm from a small town in the south of Argentina, called Trelew, and here there is only one homeless... just because things are in order in this small town, but if you go to the capital of the country, Buenos Aires you can found homeless living in parks, streets, freeways, neighbours' doors, trees, etc. and also in the place where all people from the city leaves their rubbish (I cannot remember the word)... I would like to continue talking to you, but i have to go now. I'm gaving you my e-mail so we can be in touch... enanitta.timo@hotmail.com
don't get worry about the language, I understood everyword you said in your posts.
kisses, Agostina Timo from Trelew, Argentina
helping people is really a great thing. life is not usually easy, but getting things sorted out like that can give u a reason to live happier.
i think this flog really encourages people to care about others.
keep it going :)
Hola!
Soy una estudiante de segundo de Bachillerato y estoy haciendo un trabajo de investigación. El tema es la hipnosis i neccesito vuestra ayuda para la parte estadística.
Pasate por mi fotolog para ver la encuesta!
Gracias de antemano, un beso! :)
Dear Gary, Remember me? Roomwith a view? I hope I still have you address for regular email. I want to tell you something.
ajajasjd beeeeesiiii
vas a ffs jijii :$
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Saw a comment of you you posted a long time ago at Cypher, was curious about the liitle picture.
I think you have a very beautiful flog, in many ways..the story really touched me...
Nice to have found you.
Greetings from The Netherlands.
hola espero que estes bien po ^^ bueno aqui
pasando por tu log ^^ espero que hayas tenido un buen
dia ^^ bueno me retiro ^^ y buenas noches
y espero que pases por mi log ^^
si gustas FF solo agrega y yo agrego por Reversa ^^
y si quieres jugar al 10 x 10 solo avisa ^^
o si no puedes ayudarme con 4 poost :$ osbio los devuelvo ^^
solo confia ^^
que no soy de carton!!!!
GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD GODDDDDDDDD
THIS PHOTO IS UGLY!!!!!!
GODDDDD
Grand daughter is to tear----( Grandota es tu tia) aksjaksjkasj
Hey! Absolutely wonderful story!
We don't actually believe in those things until we really hear it from a reliable source...
It's great that they've found each other!!! Oh wow!
You were like an angel in that story. And so it was the guy that found her son in Facebook. And that's to show people that internet has a lot of goods!
Well, hope you keep on geting these kind of good news and luck. Because I've been following your work for a little while and I am always wondering how the hell you make it! Well, after that, I guess it's not all suffering that you see. And that's VERY good to know. =]
My best wishes for you mashuga! (From Brazil.)
oh! nice faces, as always!
i like to read you. read their stories..
take it easy
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