Success!

I was having some technical difficulties accessing my blog and had to create a new one, copying
and pasting what I had on my old one. At any rate, I am up and running on the new blog now.

And I have an exciting update. I located Jennifer! She was the Jennifer on Classmates.com. To make sure it was her, I sent an e-mail through Classmates.com in which I pretended to be Melanie. I explained I was looking for my daughter and wanted to see if this could be her. I told her the middle name of the Jennifer I was looking for, the birthday, and what her father's first name was, and asked if this was her. I said if she was not the Jennifer I was looking for, I was sorry to bother her.

On Saturday the 14th, I got a reply back saying, "Yes, this is her. Is this a joke? If so, it's not funny."

I called up Melanie to tell her the news. She told me what to write back to Jennifer, and I wrote back, pretending to be her. Melanie dictated a note, saying, "This is no joke. I am your mother. I live in New Jersey. I don't know what your father told you about me, but I am alive....I know this must be a shock to you....I hope all is going well in your life....Please know I have never forgotten about you. Love, Melanie (mom)"

A few hours later, there was a note back from Jennifer, saying, "ok call me at [her phone number]. I am glad you found me!!! I will be waiting for your call."

I immediately called Melanie to give her the latest update, but got her voice mail. She had company over and had her phone off. So, she did not get my message until late at night. She called Jennifer on Sunday a couple of times, but got her voice mail. We are hoping Jennifer is not mad that Melanie did not call back right away on Saturday and is now ignoring her.

Well, I had faster success than I thought I would on this project. But I realize lucking out and finding Jennifer through just the one resource probably does not fulfill the requirements of this assignment, as this project is supposed to be of a larger scope. So, what I will do now is try to locate Jennifer using other resources and compare my success with each resource.