One time my husband and I were having breakfast at a local diner. It was my birthday...yippee. I noticed that three older women at the next table just kept staring at me. They stared the whole time we were eating. It was starting to make me uncomfortable. Finally, when Cody got up to pay the bill and go to the little boys room, one of the ladies got up and came over to me. She was near tears. She introduced herself, and her two sisters then explained to me why they were staring at me. This is where it gets REALLY weird. The story was that I apparently looked exactly (according to them) like their sister did 30 years ago...the last time they saw her. She was leaving a New Years Eve Party...January 1st 1970. She hasn't been seen or heard from since. Did I mention this weird meeting happened on my birthday, my 30th birthday, I was born on January 9, 1970. Oh...and Gladys...that was my twin's name... she was 29 when she disappeared, but we do not share the same birthdate, WHEW! that would have been WAY too much. It was such an emotional thing for all of them...and I was just totally freaked out. Now I wish I had asked them more questions. I don't know Gladys's last name, or where she was from, or if she had children. One of the sisters told me that they had never given up looking for her. The oldest looking one said it may sound stupid, but now she feels like she found her...(ME!)...although Gladys would have been 59, and surely her looks had changed, the fact that I looked just as they remembered her made them feel happy...like having some "closure". That was one weird "reunion". I have not seen the sisters since that day and have the feeling they were just passing through...I wish we could have stayed in touch...I would like to know more.
On the news tonight they are talking about the Hollaway girl who disappeared in Aruba in 2005 on her SR Class Trip. That's what made me think of Gladys and her sisters.
