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i don't think i told anyone gaia-side at all, but i've been looking for two sisters and one brother [sherelle, brittany, sheldon jr., all younger] for a while since after my dad's funeral, i lost contact with them-- they stayed with their mother, my stepmother who's really cool. i did manage to visit them but only the stepmom was there; the others were out. then when katrina hit, i lost nearly all hope of finding them in new orleans... what with me not actually BEING in new orleans [i was in jackson, at college], i couldn't make a claim for the things i lost or housing... which i took to FEMA telling me not to bother.
or some such nonsense.
so anyway, i'm at work last week, doing my assembling thang and i get a call from my sister on my mom's side [ronica], who's too excited to wait till my birthday that she found the others. my face is all ~_~ when she tells me they're on myspace, because it was.. all that trying to see if i could get THE MAN to look, and they're on such a common place.
so, i'm like.. happy. other things are going on that are keeping me from being OMG OVERJOYED but i'm happy. along with everything else, i'm trying to see if i can't just ride to nola one of my weekends. i'm not a road dawg, looking forward to 8 hours one way, but i'm thinking it'd be more than worth it.