My log today is not about life in Armenia. In fact, it has nothing to do with Armenia, still, everything with "Life in Armenia." A couple of days ago I recieved an email from a stranger. The name of the sender did not give me hints, for I didn't know anyone with that name. I was a click away of deleting it, as I recieve tons of junk mail. And before doing that terrible mistake, I read the subject. It read "are we related?" And that stopped me. I opened the mail, 50% convinced that I'll be reading yet another ad. Thinking what a new way to make people open and read these ads. And soon, I knew I was wrong.

From: Lauren Alys Almquist <-----------@yahoo.com>
To: ashod_ash@hotmail.com
Subject: are we related?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:33:20 -0700 (PDT)

Barev,

This may sound like a strange letter but I am writing
to you because I saw your name on the cilicia website
and you were writing about living in Armenia. I was
wondering if you are related to my family, well part
of my family (I am half Armenian) their name is
Nakashian. I know that some of our relatives were
from Egypt and Libya so that is why I am so curious.
Maybe you are not related but it was too much of a
coincidence to pass it up. I was recently trying to
find if we still had any relatives left in Egypt but I
had no luck. Anyway, sorry to bother you I don't
know if this makes any sense, but I just had to make sure.
If you are not related, this is a big coincidence I guess.
I hope to hear from you when you have the chance, thank you!

Lauren

So, I've found a lost branch of the family (of may be our branch was the lost one :)