You are not alone. I sometimes can't help thinking about my child and teen age friends. I have DID and when children are in abuse situations and are imagining themselves out of the situation by imagining the abuse is happening to someone else they imagine that person to be who is in their life during that timeframe. So some of my memory pieses are known as names of my friends.

Well one day I decided tostart looking for two particular friends. 25 years later thanks to public records and the computer age we live in I located one of thoise friends in New Orleans. We are now in touch with each other.

Nothing is impossible. you can find those missing friends one way or another, it takes deturmination and following lots of little strings but eventually you will find the rope that is connected on the other end to your friends. Start out with the name you knew the person as and the last known address. from there there will aways be a string or two to take you on the way to that rope. phone directories are free as long as the person does not have an unlisted number which will also give you addresses, and then for a small fee by pay pal you can have the unlisted number, Birthday sites will also get you what you need if you know the person. I located my friend just by typing in her name in the yahoo seach bar and the legal agency in which she worked at came up with her last name as one of the people working there. I emailed to this person with the same last name that I once knew someone with that initialed first name and same last name and wanted to know if she was who I was looking for. She emailed back immediately saying yes and told me things that only she and I knew from when I knew her 25 years ago. She went through katrina and after a bit I was again able to locate her.

you follow those leads you find and not get discouraged when no leads are being found and you will soon be talking to your friends again - good luck. and hang in there.