Preface

When I received this fortune today, I knew it way high time we began documenting our quest. I will leave most of the story telling to Nate, as he has always been the keeper of our tales, but the Reader's Digest version goes something like this...

My two closest friends and I have been looking for George Flannery for over 10 years. George was also a close friend of ours, who dropped off the map and has never tried to contact any one of us. If you knew us, you would know that unlike most people who would forget about him and move on, we have made it our personal challenge to find him. Now, you might be thinking that anyone not in the witness protection program would be easily found in this age of technology, but we have been bound to some unwritten rules of conduct:

(1) Never pay anyone for information. (ok, one time in 2000, we paid $19.99 to PeopleSeach USA but we never acted on any of the information. It felt too dirty.)
(2) Never contact anyone who might let him know we are on his trail.
(3) Never do anything that makes us look like we are desperate.

We believed that God has a sense of humor and that eventually a major clue would come our way. Well, it has and now the story starts to get interesting. Stay tuned!

P.S.

I especially like how the 'Learn Chinese' phrase is a nice segue with the fortune.