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In this section, I will focus my attention on people places and things
that have either been lost or found which have been brought to my
attention.
People:
Some of the people are friends of mine whom I've lost contact with over
the years and whom I am trying to get in touch with. Some of them are
people I've met or have been introduced to whom are looking to try to
get in touch with someone else.
Places:
Honestly, I'm not quite sure how this one will fit, but I'm open to
suggestions.
Things:
I'll list things I've found that I think are worth reporting to the
general public that someone might want to reclaim if they ever come
across it on the internet. Of course, anyone wishing to claim an object
listed here will have to give some pretty specific details before I
acknowledge them as the one that lost the object.
People
Places
Things
People
Perry
Perry,
Perry Nixon, Perry D. Nixon, Perry D Nixon, Perry Dean Nixon, Nick, Q.
These are all names by which I know this person has gone in one way
or another at one time or another in the past.
Normally I think I try to be more 'equal' in my treatment of the various
subject areas of my web site, but with this one, I'm going all-out for
the selfish, personal aspect of things. This person is first on my list
because he is the one person in the whole world with whom I most wish to
regain contact.
I'm not holding anything back on this one. In fact, if I can find a way,
I'm going to start a world-wide campaign to try to find this person. If
I had enough money and enough connections, I'd post an add in every news
paper and on every TV station I could get in contact with.
Please, please, please... if you know this person, help me get in
contact with him.
Perry is one of the best friends I've ever had. We were friends in high
school. We met during our 10th grade year at Woodbury High School in
Woodbury Minnesota in the fall of 1986.
Perry (he went by the name Nick at the time; from his last name) looked
like Prince; so much so that people often actually mistook him for
Prince. An interesting point is that at the time we met, I was an
extremely big Prince fan. Although not to the same degree, I sort of
looked like Rod Stewart at the time with the way I fixed my hair all
spiked with gel and hairspray etc. Together we made quite the pair.
Seriously though, we grew to be very close friends. I so much enjoyed
our years of hanging out that it has probably ruined me forever with
regard to finding friends that I can really relate with and all that. Of
course we've both changed enormously since those days, but I'm pretty
sure that if we met back up again today, it'd be fairly easy for both of
us to pick right up where we left off as if we hadn't skipped a step.
Why the long communication silence?
Well, I'm not exactly sure, but it probably has at least something to do
with the following...
1. Relational Maturity
He had matured long before me and it probably wasn't as comfortable for
him anymore to hang out with someone that was still looking to go out
every night looking for girls. Oh, it was fun for the first few years,
but getting more serious about relationships with the opposite gender is
something that came to him sooner than I.
Not that I hadn't had serious relationships yet by that time, but just
that it seems that in his serious relationships, perhaps he was a bit
more mature about it all or something like that.
2. Serious Relationship
I met, fell in love with and got engaged to someone (Carol Klinkhammer =
another person that I will eventually be adding to this "Lost & Found"
section). In hind sight, I'm sure it had something to do with our
gradual drift-apart, but at the time it certainly wouldn't have been
something I would have wanted to happen. I never wanted to lose touch
with Perry; even as special as that relationship with Carol really was.
3. My Born-Again days
This is something I've talked about a lot on this web site. Well, it
just so happens to be that at the time I was entering into that stage of
my life, he had already been more open-minded about such things for some
time.
I recall getting together with Perry and two other friends (Brian and
Marry Ellen) soon after I became a born-again Christian. We sat and
talked for a while. I told them my story and tried to convince them to
believe what I had come to believe.
Of course they'd already heard it all by that time and my words were
just so much more religious baggage. Not that they were looking down on
me in their attitudes, but I'm sure they were all done with my world
view and didn't really have the time or energy to spend dealing with it.
One more interesting note about this time of my life... not only did I
lose touch with Perry (and many other friends that I'm not going into at
the moment) during this time, but my becoming a hyper-conservative,
fundamentalist Christian was also the reason for breaking off the
engagement with Carol (the person I mentioned just above); after being
together for a year and a half in what was otherwise a pretty great
relationship (as much as is possible for folks that age) as far as I can
recall.
[I debated whether I should say that Perry or Carol is the person with
whom I most want to get back in touch. In light of the quality of
relationship I have with my current wife, Karen, I decided to enter my
thoughts about Perry first and sit on this about Carol for a little
while longer. The truth is, if I had never become a born-again Christian
(which I no longer am), I'd most likely still be with Carol, married,
possibly with children, in a relationship possibly just as good and
healthy as the one I'm in now with Karen. Because I know Karen knows
about this part of my history, I feel completely comfortable sharing
about it here in this context.]
That's just to say that, it's not just Perry that I've lost contact with
over the years. It gets kind of hard to decide who's more important to
me and with whom I'd like to get in contact with more than others.
I decided to start with Perry simply because he is the most obvious
choice. He really was the person with whom I've had the deepest, mutual
friendship with in all my life. So, I don't feel bad for saying so.
Again, please, please, please, if you know this person, help me get in
contact with him.
Perry, if you get this message, please
contact me (I changed my name
from Siegrist to Reinhold when I got married. I took Karen's last name
to make a statement about how I think that men are not more important
than women...I know that point is irrelevant here, but I just wanted to
throw it in to make sure you know who I am).
At times I miss you
so much I can't stand it. However long it takes, I will always be
watching for you. I will never stop looking until I find you. If we do
get back in contact with each other, wherever you are I will come to see
you.
Just to make sure all readers understand that I haven't flipped my lid
or gone off into sentimental-nonsense... This is not one of those sappy,
dumbass, "can't live without you" pleas.
This is simply the longing of one friend for another. You mean a lot to
me Perry. Whatever the case, I hope you are well and that all is well
with you.
[this entry added 20050121_2253]
Places
As I said in the intro to this section, I'm not sure how this one fits,
but I'm open to suggestions. What ways can you think of that I could
include places into this Lost & Found section of Every Fork in the Road.
Things
Nothing here yet.
[This section started 20050121]
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