Finding Long Lost Online Friends

This blog hopping sure can be interesting. Back in my early days of card making, I belonged to a now defunk message board. We had a group of ladies who did a one-on-one card exchange each week. I met this lovely lady and we exchanged cards and life's stories. She developed breast cancer and due to her treatment, she dropped out of sight. All of us ladies wondered how she was doing but never received answers to our emails. Eventually, that board ceased to exist and we all moved on to other places and new friends. Well, don't you know, I found her blog and could not believe it was her. My joy at finding out she had beat the cancer and was back at making cards was overwhelming. It is so strange how we can have a feeling for someone we barely know, but will think about so often about after touch has been lost. Has anyone else found a long lost friend through blogging or a message board?