Truth Really Is Stranger Than Fiction

[BarbaraJane]

This is a true story.  Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Okay, when I was a freshman in high school, my (future) sister-in-law, Marian, was a senior.  She graduated in 1979 with a girl named - - oh let’s just call her Jane.  Now, as it happened, “Jane” had a sister named - - la ti da, let’s say Suzie - - who graduated with my brother (whose name is Rick, but I am going to change it too since he and I are not really on speaking terms these day.  I’ll call him Heathcliff since that name seems to fit him well. Hahaha  All Wuthering Heights fans will appreciate this sarcastic humor.)

So Marian and Jane graduated and three years later, I graduated.  I got married and moved away.  Got divorced and moved back.  Married David and moved away.  David got out of the Navy and we moved back.  David went back into the Navy and we moved away again.  Then we continued to move again, and again and again until we finally ended up back in Ashland, KY when he got out of the Navy.  And as you can imagine, in all that time, I lost touch with most of the kids I went to school with.  However, the few school chums that I have remained in contact with will occasionally tell me something about some of our peers from the past.  I distinctly remember Marian telling me once that “Jane” had a brain tumor.  In fact, I think I remember hearing that from a couple of people.  But that is really all I remember hearing about her, other than she survived this tumor.  I don’t even know what kind of tumor it was.

So now I have a Face Book account as well as myspace, xanga, cafemom, and twitter.  (I know, I know.  I am a total dork.)  So anyway, I cancelled my FB account once because this dumbass contacted me asking about my brother Paul.  And it just pissed me off because of all the years that she and I were in school together, you would have thought that she would have realized that I was not Paul’s sister.  During all those school years, I didn’t even share his last name.  And the thought that she could not even distinguish me from my in-laws just infuriated me.  And, though I really wanted to send her a really ugly message, I just deleted my account all together.  But then later I re-activated it because, as afore mentioned, I am a dweeb.

So tonight I got a message from Jane on Face Book asking me about my brother Heathcliff because they went to school together and asking me to put her on as a friend.  So I told her what I know of my brother (which is very little these days) and accepted her friend request.  And, as I always do with new friends, I checked out her profile.  And it listed her birth date as January 28, 1958.  Hmmm.  This was just weird.  Jane was not in Heathcliff’s class.  Suzie was.  So I sent her another message and asked her what was up with that.  And she sent me back two messages saying her sister was using her account.  But that does not explain why she is listed on her Face Book as being born in 1958 when she was really born in 1961.

So now I am wondering if Jane’s brain tumor has affected her connection with reality.  Do you think she thinks she is her sister now?  And have I upset the balance in her fragile world by mentioning the fact that she is not who she seems to think she is?  I have done a lot of things in my life that I am not particularly proud of, but I really don’t want to be accountable for sending a loose cannon over the edge.   

All my life I have been cursed with a vivid and over-active imagination.    I now have visions of the men in white coats coming to get poor Jane, wrestling her into a straight jacket and then it’s off to the padded cell for her.  And it’s all my fault.  Just one more thing I am going to have to explain to St. Peter when I reach the Pearly Gates. . . Oh who the hell am I fooling?  Pearly Gates?   For me?  Now that’s funny.  hahaha

[Lb128f]

Aug. 1, 2009 at 2:03 AM

LOL, you are too funny. Shouldn't you have changed David's name too? :-) Maybe it's time to delete all other accounts...except CM of course! And, this (below)....did I say you are funny?

"whose name is Rick, but I am going to change it too since he and I are not really on speaking terms these day." LMAO...yeah better change it...we might know his real name if you don't! :-) 

[homemommie]

Aug. 2, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Wow, this is crazy and I always find it interesting reading your posts. I guess I am a dork too because I have Facebook too. I would let sleeping dogs lie. If she wants to be her sister then by all means let her be. I would find this fascinating to read her posts that she put on Facebook. Today she is this sister, tommorrow the next...I dunno, lol