4) Doesn't the word "soulmate" have a romantic connotation? How could she be my soulmate?
But come to think about it, we knew each other, and she had been on my mind for many years with no contacts whatsoever...so a soulmate she was, in the truest sense of the word.
Two years ago, through the help of a net friend from my hometown, I got her email address.
We restablished contact...36 years after we had last met when we were both still teenagers.
She's setteled down in Australia, with a happy marriage and a job she likes.
And she still wtites occasinally.
When I read her "原來" which I quoted at the very beginning of my diary, I said to myself, "Darn, no wonder she beat me everytime in those composition contests." I was never in her league.
I have nothing but best wishes for her. To me she'll always be that "cute, smart girl in the next class".