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21 September 2006

Someone Zabasearched Me and came up with where I live, phone #, etc. It got me thinking about someone from my past, and[More:]so I typed in Esther Pauline Daniels (made up name). She always went by Pauline. . .a former flame, or wannabe (from my end) flame who, unfortunately for me, happened to prefer women to men as sexual partners (a pattern developed out of this, and my daughter now loves to hear those stories).

Anyway, it was not pretty, or particularly happy but she ended up here in Eugene, several years before I got here. As fate would have it, my house is only two blocks from where she lived. By the time I got here, she was gone back to the Bay Area (where we'd met) and a few people I talked to had casually known her, but not well enough to keep in touch.

I had googled her a few times (please don't tell me that I am the only one who googles people from their past. Thank you) but could never find a trace of her on the net.

So I Zabasearch her full name, and there is one match that also has the correct birth year, in the hills of Oakland. I call her from a phone here other than mine, using a phone card, and a voice said, "This is Pauline, leave a message and I'll call ya back!" It's been literally over half a lifetime ago by now, but it could have been her voice.

So, someone in the Bay Area, with her full name, going day-to-day by the middle name, same age, etc. etc. There are a lot of people there, though.

I wrote a note and put it in snail mail. It's funny. . .I keep expecting her to have already gotten it, like email. She'll get it tomorrow. I have no idea if it is, in reality, her, and how she will react if it IS her. I am just curious about how her life has turned out.

I'll let y'all know how it turns out, if I hear back.
There are a few people from my past that I would zabasearch but it doesn't work for Canadians :(
posted by LunaticFringe 21 September | 09:42
Doesn't seem strange, danf. I'd like to get in touch with my childhood sweetheart Julie Harvey, but all I have is her first and last name and birth year ('65 or'66) and possibly the city of birth (Painesville, OH?)
posted by shane 21 September | 09:50
They've got my old mailing addresses but not my new one yet! ^_^
posted by TrishaLynn 21 September | 10:04
Huh. Weird. They've got me listed at an address in Maine where I've never lived, and at a very old address in Maine where I haven't lived for 12 years. Nothing before that, or after that, or for any other states I've lived in.

Good luck Danf!
posted by JanetLand 21 September | 10:17
They don't have me.
posted by muddgirl 21 September | 10:27
nor me. But they have mr. gaspode at all of his maryland residences. No NY ones though.
posted by gaspode 21 September | 10:58
The only address Zaba has for me is from 1990 and for an apartment I leased for six months. They claim that it is a house I own worth $96K. Also, the phone number they give is my brother's birthday!

I don't think I would ever pay them $50 to search for someone.
posted by mischief 21 September | 11:14
A friend of mine from high school, who was the ultra-nerdiest of the nerds and therefore highly cool to me, moved to Painesville, OH our Junior (I think) year. I often wonder what happened to him. He has an incredibly common name, though.
posted by matildaben 21 September | 12:22
Um, doesn't this seem like a great tool for stalkers?
posted by chewatadistance 21 September | 15:48
Um, doesn't this seem like a great tool for stalkers?


I'll get back to you on that one in a few days.
posted by danf 21 September | 16:25
ouch || Hey Mac users!

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