I signed up for Facebook in 2007 primarily to communicate with my brothers that were/are still in college. They tend to respond to me faster from that forum, but the side benefit was also finding current and old friends.
Last week I logged into Facebook and discovered that one of my brother's had re-connected to a neighbor of ours in Michigan. This was the little boy (Chi Wei) that stood at the end of Burrell Court everyday and waited for Bus 53 with me and my sisters. Out of the 12 houses on that court we had quite the eclectic mix of people. We had my family (Mormon, big family), the Jewish family, the Muslim family, the Chinese family, the Episcopalian bishop and his family, the Methodist bishop and his family, the other bishop (?) and his family, the Dow Chemical chemist who helped invent aspirin (at least I think that's the story), the people that were never home, the Dow Chemical scientist or engineer that woke up every winter morning and shoveled the driveway even before we (the Mormon family) left for seminary (early morning church class for 9-12 graders often referred to as "cemetery" because of the early morning dead feeling), and the amazing pianist/organist that we all took piano lessons from. I think I am missing one or two, but there were a couple of moves of people during the nine years we lived there.
Really, it was a great mix of people and there were often holiday picnics where we all gathered in Bishop Gordon's backyard and had the usual "food, folks and fun."
Oh, back to Chi Wei - he just got married and has an awesome wedding video at http://www.chiweiandstacy.com/
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