[CathrynAnne]

I tell ya, the Interweb is AMAZING! I went from having no earthly idea how to find my hsister's home address yesterday morning... to finding it yesterday evening! At least, I'm pretty sure it's hers. I went on a couple of search sites and found 2 addresses in what I believe is her hometown - one of which was deemed undeliverable when I plugged it into the USPS site. So, I'm picking the other one. LOL! I also dropped her a quick note via FB briefly introducing myself (she added me as Friend last week, but I haven't written anything to her until now.) I mentioned casually that that last time I had visited her state was 5 years ago to see my other sister (HA - her sister, too!) and gave the name of the town I visited, and then I asked her which town she lived in. (I couldn't think of any other way to find out that wasn't too sneaky.) Waiting on the reply.

After tweaking the loooooong email we want to send to the amom with the wonderful suggestions here, we read it to my mother, and she said it sounded great. So, we also sent that out yesterday. We've already decided that whether or not she replies to us, mom will be giving her a call to lay it all out - hsister must be told, and if she wouldn't do it, mom would be sending her a letter.

Oh, the butterflies...!!