virtual family

the internet does too connect people. i have proof.

besides true tales of long distance internet love affairs that become marriage (and you have to remind yourself it's the emotional connection that makes it work, not the digital one), i've seen it in real life.

example one : a sister of a friend who has repeatedly introduced herself to me as if we'd just met me, finally found me on facebook. we rallied a few words online about live music in cape town, and the next time she saw me at a gig, she was warm and familiar. see?!

and. the argument must go on...

today yaniv called me. i don't know anyone called yaniv. i heard the accent, i heard the name, i didn't know the number. so i launched into hebrew. it turns out he shares my family name (MITRANI)(for those of you who thought you knew me!) and lives in Durban. (another unmet-yet cousin?) imagine. this was skype's doing.

trivia:
i learnt something about my own lineage from this total stranger today. apparently the surname mitrani either has bulgarian or turkish origins. (remember they're not far from each other at all, and form part of the silk and semen route that ravaged pure blood across the east's middle!) mine are turkish. his are bulgarian.

just when i was saying i hadn't made any new connections over the internet. or tried.


go figure....