Waiting in queue for a ride on the world’s longest zip-line, I met a woman from Wisconsin. In the fifteen minute period we had before she was to zip, we got to know one another a little. She was funny, warm, chatty and equally nervous as I was for the ride. She told me that her husband was at the bottom of the cliff and didn’t think she would actually go through with something like this. She requested that I take photos of her while harnessed, to prove she’d done it. We exchanged emails and I took some photos and off she went. Even though we were on the same cruise, I never saw her again.
When I returned home, I got out her email and loaded my photos. A day later, my computer crashed. Windows had not been installed properly and the fix was free, but I unfortunately lost all my photos (and videos!) from Alaska, including the ones of the woman which I hadn’t gotten a chance to sort and send.
Over the next few days, while wallowing in the loss of my photos, I must’ve picked up the paper with the woman’s email on it and recycled it.
Only this weekend did I realise that I had loaded all my photos to an online photo sharing site, including the ones of the woman. They’re all there! And now I don’t have her email. And now I’m so mad I didn’t email her to at least let her know about the loss. Perhaps she’ll read my blog.
Do you know this woman?
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