How to find someone in Australia?

[Eden]

Sounds better than my fictional namesake who is the southern belle heroine of a bodice ripper

[lph]

Ahaha, Eden, that sounds fun but embarrassing :-D

[GLC1968]

My current fictional namesake is a character on a TV series from the 80's that has been recently remade.

When you google me, it dominates the results giving me good anonymity.

Of course, my maiden name is mine and only mine. No other in the whole world (through all of history - that's what you get when one's grandfather makes up one's last name!). ;-)

[zoom-zoom]

My married name is not particularly common (this is not the case with my maiden name, which is both a common Scandinavian first and surname). There's an artist in Canada with my name and on a few occasions old friends/classmates looking for her had found me (assuming that a Canadian could have easily moved to MI, just hours from the border).

Here's were stuff gets small-world. I looked at my name on FB and there is a girl maybe a year or two younger than my son with my name. They will be in school during HS, if not next year. She is also a patient at my allergist's office. She lives just a couple of miles from us.

[GLC1968]

Kirsten - that is weird!

I have another odd coincidence... I used to make beaded jewelry and for awhile, owned a url that was myname.com. I gave it up because I really wasn't doing anything with it. Here is where it gets weird. The website exists and the woman who owns it sells jewelry (that I like but totally different from the stuff I made) AND lives here in Portland, Oregon. Her name is my name but she is much younger than me. Freaky!

[Rebecca19804]

Sounds better than my fictional namesake who is the southern belle heroine of a bodice ripper

Or mine, who's an Australian glamour model turned TV "reality star".