In a world, where the facebooks and myspaces rule, where people are reunited and friends are found again.... Here is an interesting story of two people from different sides of their own family, where they've found their connection through an unlikely source, and the conversation between them.



These are the actual e-mail messages in their entirety of the conversation between myself and my aunt. I have never met my family on my fathers side, due to the variations of stories many of us are familiar with where family conflicts are involved.



To thwart further discouragement I ended the journey I began over five years ago to find my extended family and went on with my life. Still wondering what my other side was like, and who they were. Still curious about the traits I've developed in life that seemed different from the side of the family I grew up with. I was left with just a menacing wonder.



I think all of us deep down want to know where we came from, yet fearing the dramatic change of what was common, comfortable, and safe, and exchanging them for disappointment, embarrassment, and confusion in order to find ones' truth. Yet still, it is intriguing to find there's more, to get the questions answered, and embracing ones self to the newness of life that always was, but not readily made available.

Enjoy!