I’m hitting another search wall.  We’ve gone through nearly all of the Ashley leads that people forwarded us in response to the Globe and AOL stories and most have simply brought me back to Ashleys I’ve already been able to rule out.  Ashley Marie, where are you?  I’ve been operating under the assumption that her first name is still Ashley.  I find it hard to believe any family would change the name of a child past the age of 7.  Maybe I’m naïve; but at the same time I need to trust my instincts.  So I’ll keep on looking for one elusive Ashley. 

In a moment I’m going to blast our facebook group members and ask for their help in blanketing the Ashleys on the facebook site.  If you’re reading this and are on facebook, myspace, or perhaps some hipper networking site I’m not cool enough to be aware of, I hope that you’ll be a part of this challenge too.

I promised my uncle I’d find Ashley a little over five months ago.  Since I’m looking for an arbitrary number, five seems appropriate.  So here’s my pitch- in an effort to locate Ashley before five more months have passed, I hope you’ll search “Ashley” on a networking site and send a message to the first five Ashleys that pop up.  What should that message say?  Well, I don’t want to dictate your communications.  But if you have writer’s block, a quick message explaining that you a part of a big effort to help reunite a family by locating a 21 year old who was born with the name of Ashley Marie McFarland should suffice.  Ask her to check out this website or the ‘A Wish for Ashley’ facebook group; you never know if it’ll be my cousin, or another Ashley that will bring us closer to her. 

If you complete the Five Ashley challenge, email facebook@awishforashley.com and let us know that you did so.  I’ll soon be making a volunteer page for this website and I’d love to acknowledge all of the people who participate in our outreach challenges!  Five Ashleys… and it’ll take less than 5 minutes of your time.  Five Ashleys… and you may be the person to make this wish come true.

Thank you for your optimism and continued support.


With love (and ongoing gratitude),

Audra

 


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Linda
11/13/2009 04:42

know the feeling of wanting to find someone. trying to find my mothers' step sister - very frustrating - good lcuk

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