Long Lost Friends

I have recently had the pleasure of re-uniting with a long lost friend. I have also recently re-connected through e-mail with another long lost friend I haven’t seen him yet but I'm sure that I will. I have 2 other long lost friends that are still lost, but I’ll get to them later.

First is Steve Edwards. Steve and I were in a band together about 23 years ago. I left the band and I think I may have stopped in once or twice at their gigs to say hi and sit in and sing a song but that was within a couple years of leaving the band. After that I lost touch with all of them. I have still been singing here and there but not like I used to and so have not run into or heard from any of the band members in all this time. Around the holidays I ran into a woman that I knew initially through Steve one night at a bar and asked her if she ever saw Steve Edwards anymore and she said yes that she was doing a gig with him that weekend! I asked for his number and I called him later that week and then went to see him where he was playing. It was great to see him again. He had me sit in and sing a few songs. That was cool. it was good to see him again.

Then there’s Howard Kutzly. Now how could you forget a guy with a name like that? Seriously though, even though Howard was originally a friend of my Ex-husband Dane Thompson I always liked Howard. When my marriage fell apart I lost touch with Howard but I’ve often thought of him over the years and wondered how he was doing. So I wasn’t looking for Howard or anything but I found him again anyway and I think it was in a pretty funny way. See I was browsing the site Craigslist because I was bored one day and I came across a post from a woman lamenting her broken heart and the broken heart of her child and going on and on about how this guy had wooed her gotten her pregnant and then went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. Well this was the MO of my Ex although he usually eventually came back but did eventually abandon me and our son for good never to be heard from (or to get a child support check from) again. So I posted back “His name wasn’t Dane Thompson was it?” Well she never answered me so I don’t know if it was or wasn’t but then I got the brilliant idea to post a sort of public service announcement warning women about Dane Thompson. I don’t know if I helped any women to avoid that particular hell but what did happen was that I got an e-mail from Howard Kutzly! I guess I gave just enough information in my post so that if someone knew me or my ex they would know it was me. We’ve been exchanging e-mails and I’m sure that we’ll get together one of these days and I hope it’s soon, cause I always Liked Howard a lot.

So this got me thinking about the power of the internet and all and I’m wondering if anyone can help me find 2 other long lost friends that I would really love to re-connect with. One is Susan Mathis. Susan and I sung together in my dad’s big band when we were in our early 20’s and became really good friends. We kept in touch for quite a while after that even when she moved to the Los Angeles area to sing with none other than Steve Vai. Unfortunately she then met the man of her dreams who turned out actually to be the man of her nightmares. He turned out to be physically and emotionally abusive to her and their 2 children all the while proclaiming to be a religious man. I believe he was Mormon. Now, I’m not bashing Mormons. I’m sure that it’s a perfectly lovely religion if you go for that sort of thing but he turned out to be such a monster that she ran all the way back home to her parents in Louisiana just to get away from him. The last time I spoke with Susan on the phone she was living in the new Orleans area so I have thought and worried) about her a lot since Hurricane Katrina. I can only hope that she’s OK and I haven’t talked to her in probably 16 years. So if anyone knows Susan Mathis please have her send me an e-mail at julievaughn777@comcast.net Ok?

My other long lost friend that I would really like to reconnect with is Lynne Morgan. Lynne is actually another person that I met through my ex-husband around the same time frame as I met Howard. Lynne and I became very good friends and she helped me immensely through the breakup of my marriage. She left the area and moved to Mill Valley, which really isn’t that far away but I have since lost touch with her, and I also still owe her $500.00 which I still don’t have but I STILL really want to re-connect with her because she was just an awesome person and I loved her dearly. She was in advertising and as far as I know still is. If anyone knows Lynne please have her e-mail me at julievaughn777@comcast.net ok?

Thanks. That is all for today.