The Internet Is Magic

So, Jen and I got to talking today about the Young Author's Club, which we were both in during elementary school. I was telling her about how my poetry book got all the way to the finals in 5th grade, but was beaten by a classmate of mine in the end, and that she was tragically killed a few years later, after I'd moved away. So I got to poking around on the internet -- don't even ask me why -- and it turns out, rumors of her death were greatly exaggerated. She is totally alive (her name was -- um, and remains -- very unusual, and Jen did some fancy PI-work to double check her info), and actually very successful. I can't even believe it. I can't remember who told us she was dead, but it was a totally reliable source, so I have NO IDEA how the story turned so dramatic. Needless to say, I'm pretty stoked that her story didn't take such a tragic turn. Twenty years ago, I never would have discovered this unless I'd run into her at the market.

Comments

[raych]

Sometimes when I'm sitting at my computer, all 'Dear Google, how do I get wax out of a table cloth?' (warm iron and paper towel) or 'Dear Google, who was it that said 'The road to hell is paved with adverbs' (Stephen King), I wonder how they did it, so long ago, when all the knowledge in the world was stored up in books and in people's heads. Maybe they did a lot more calling their moms, or talking to Old Man Perkins down on Amblewood.

[Beth]

Heh, the same thing happened to a classmate of mine. One of our mutual friends who he had drifted away from called me asking what had happened to Aaron. Nothing, obviously, but another classmate hadtold her he had died in a freak theater accident. We laughed long and hard about that- especially when he said if certain people thought he was dead he wasjust fine with that.

[Kate F.]

Hahaha, and I wonder how many times over the years you've said something like "Oh yeah, one of my elementary school classmates was brutally murdered..."

I got a good belly laugh out of this, thank you!

[Gwen]

UNLESS she actually DID die, and the person you found on the internet is an imposter who murdered her and stole her identity!

[Jessica]

Well, the story was that she was killed in a car accident, so it's not THAT dramatic.

[Megan]

Can you imagine running into your very much un-dead former classmate?!? That sounds so dramatic - I think a fainting spell (on your part) would be in order. Because there really is no other way to respond to suddenly seeing the undead walking among us.

[Edwina]

As she wasn't in fact killed, I think you should have won.