needle in a haystack

I was 60 years old in 2001 and was working overseas I often went in to work but had little to do I went on to the internet and looked up my old school in the UK. I left my email address so that any old boy could contact me. Not long after I was contacted by an old colleague working and living in Canada. We exchanged a couple of emails getting up to date with people and things 45 years ago. I soon ran out of things to write as we had little in common I was running out of things to say, so I went on to Google and made a search of my home town in 1957and 1958, hoping that I could get some inspiration for material for my ext email. There I found very little to write about, but I did look into one of the sites “Missing You” I looked at the section on the South East UK. It was full of sad searches people looking for missing brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers It wasn't pleasurable to read. I nearly quit I felt I was invading people's private agonies But before I quit I refined the search, and focussed on my home town. To my surprise I found a message from an old German girlfriend circa 1968 trying to contact me. I was in a state of shock. I replied to the “Missing You” site hoping that they would forward my details to my old girlfriend but I did get any response. I then searched for her by name on Google and found someone with her name working in a real estate sales office in Florida. I phoned the office and found that she was on holiday in Germany. When she returned I phoned her she was then in a state of shock. She had changed her email address so that is why I didn't I get a reply from “Missing You”. We phoned and emailed quite a lot but we haven't met Like with my old school colleague it is difficult to go back