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Date Posted: 23:26:48 05/03/08 Sat
Author: Joan Barland Leese
Subject: Agrandze Coleman

For years I have wondered about a classmate of ours, Agrandze Coleman. When I began "computering", I looked up her name and found nothing. Not to be outdone, one day I finally just typed in "Agrandze" and up she came....living in Pelahatchie, MS just a hour and a half away from me for all those years! She and I were such good friends in Jr. High and High School up until the 10th grade when she suddenly vanished off the face of the earth, I thought. Well, I called her and spoke to her son, he told me that she was in the early stages of Alzheimer's and he would get back to me. I spoke to her briefly on the phone, but she didn't seem to remember me. I sent her a picture of me taken in high school hoping that would jog her memory. Well, a couple of weeks ago, her son called me and told me that he had taken her to another doctor who had success in reversing the Alzheimer's disease and she remembered me and wanted to see me. I spoke to her on the phone and it was as though we had never been apart. Her son, who lives with her and cares for her, told me that he wanted to set a date to meet me in Vicksburg and the date was today. We met at Shoney's and as soon as I walked in, they stood up and we hugged without even speaking. There were tears in our eyes and we could hardly speak. It had been 56 years since we'd seen each other. We ate lunch together and caught up, somewhat, on the past 56 years. Then we rode around Vicksburg and saw the apartment building in which she lived on Drummond Street. She wanted to see Bowmar Avenue School as she had attended that school also, which I didn't remember. Then we drove by Carr Central and we chatted about our years there. Her son is thinking about bringing her back over for our Wednesday monthly lunch this coming Wednesday. That will be so much fun. She brought her yearbook, The Cannon's Roar, and we looked at different folks and she remembered some of them. I still sit in disbelief that I found her.....thanks to the computer. Had it not been for that, I would have never seen her again. We look forward to another meeting soon.

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Re: Agrandze Coleman -- Dick, 21:04:38 05/04/08 Sun
- Re: Agrandze Coleman -- Sylvia, 17:52:37 05/06/08 Tue
  - Re: Agrandze Coleman -- Sylvia (Oops), 17:55:07 05/06/08 Tue