all they talk about in the news is Hillary and Obama. it is strange, that the election of a nominee for presidency in America, is more exiting then the actually election in Norway. it`s like we are looking from the outside and just enjoy our self.
one of you told me that you were looking for relatives in Norway. the day before my brother asked if i could do something about our little story while we still remember. …so i got the boxes out of the closet…
….one morning – early summer 1978, i found my mother crying -looking in the local morning-paper.
an American lady was looking for her grandfathers sister and tree brothers.
the sister was my grandmother.
she was born in 1896 and died in 1977. her brother left for America in 1909 and after a few years they stopped hearing from him. she spent her hole life grieving about that loss, and she never stopped looking for him. He was nowhere to be found, because he died in a work-accident. his young widow remarried and gave his little boy av different name. the boy grow up not nowing that his father is norwegian. a death in his familie in 1975 brings out the thruth.
his daughter starts looking for relatives in 1977. about the same time my grandmother dies. in 1978, three months before we reads the ad in the paper, her father gets killed in a accident at work.
the hole story is so sad. but ends well. for years we enjoyd the letters crossing the ocean. and in 1992 michelle came to visit. that was so great. one of her grandfathers brothers were still alive and it was a big happening.
so….. my LO to day is the ad we read in the paper that special morning in june1978.
