Man hører skrekkhistorier om stalkere, mennesker som lurer seg inn i hverdagen din, stjeler personligheten din, tar over vennene dine. Styrer livet ditt. Man hører sjelden om frydhistoriene, de med et positivt utfall. Derfor skal jeg fortelle deg om min.
Søndag mottok jeg følgende mail:

“Hello Rebecca,
My name is Ashley and I am writing to find out if you were my roommate from Disney in 2004. Her name was Rebecca Hoseth. She was a very nice girl and I lost contact with her. You look very much like her and if you are not, I am very sorry to take up your time. Please reply back and let me know if I have contacted you by mistake. Thank you for your time.
Ashley”

Så vidt jeg vet finnes det ikke mange Rebecca Hoseth, iallefall ikke her i Norge. Spesielt ikke blant Disney Castmembers. Så jeg svarte Ashley. Og fikk følgende mail i morges:

“Becca,
Oh my goodness!!! You have just made my day! I could write a book right now.
So I’m gonna give you the short version of my life!
Jan – 2004 I met the most wonderful, beautiful Norwegian (also my roommate.)
End of 2004 – You disappeared from my life!
(…)
June 2007 – now.  Still with Disney but now in scheduling. I make the schedules for all of EPCOT custodial. Everytime I go to Epcot to meet my contacts, I see the Norway building and think of you.

Now the part about finding you. (I had a tough time.)
It’s something I have thought about many times. I questioned, how do I ever make contact with you again. I tried a couple of different ways in the past, but that didn’t work.
(…)
Then I was talking to my boyfriend, telling him about you, and telling him i wanted to find you to write back and forth. He started laughing and didn’t think it was possible. All last night I was determined to find you. He kept telling me I was stalking you. I told him no, that i really wanted to find you (so maybe I kind of did but I hope you don’t mind.)
This is crazy but this is how I found you. I was on facebook looking (because we had discussed it at work about facebook being world wide). I couldn’t find you under Norway, but I found this girl named Victoria. And I kept telling myself that I remembered you talking about your sister or family member, Victoria. She looked so much like you. So I looked all over her site and could not find you, but I thought I saw you in a couple of her pictures. So I click on the Hoseth tab and saw you. I just knew that it was you and that if it wasn’t you, then you had an identical twin somewhere. The only problem is that I could not add you as my friend because it would not let me.
I did not stop there because I couldn’t contact you to write to you. So my boy friend had the idea to google your name and see what came up. Sure enough he clicked on a couple of websites and found your picture and I found an email address for you. So I could write to you (or what I was hoping was you.)
(…)
And now I am super excited because it’s you and I have found my long lost Norwegian roommate.
I hope you hear all about you.
Ashley <3 :) “

Jeg må innrømme jeg stusset litt da jeg så på blogstatsene på wordpress at noen hadde søkt etter navnet mitt. Trodde ikke det var flere enn pappa som kunne komme på å gjøre det. Men igjen kunne det jo hende han hadde hatt en kjedelig dag på jobben.
Og jeg stusset enda mer da jeg kom over mailen fra Ashley. En jente jeg selv har lett etter utallige ganger siden jeg flyttet fra Florida, angret som en hund for at jeg ikke holdt kontakten med. Som jeg har lekt med, vokst med, funnet meg selv med. Og så ble jeg funnet. Igjen.
Det er som en helt ny verden har åpnet seg.

Man kan jo komme på “Tore på sporet” for langt mindre.