Twitter users help friends who met on vacation 12 years ago reunite
For a few hours in 2006, they were inseparable.
Brianna Cry, now 19, and Heidi "Heii" Tran, now 18, met on a dinner cruise in Hawaii 12 years ago. "I don't think there were many kids our age on this particular dinner cruise, so we found each other and stuck together the whole time," Cry told Teen Vogue. Over Thanksgiving break, while looking at old photos, Cry found a picture with her vacation friend, and thought, "Let's see if Twitter can find her for me.'"
Cry tweeted the photo, explained how they met, and asked for helping finding her old friend. The photo was retweeted and liked thousands of times, and soon, a friend of Tran's saw the picture and told her about it. Tran quickly responded to Cry's tweet with a photo of her own from that night. "I was blown away by the response Bri had gotten," she said. "I didn't think so many people would be invested in a story like this."
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They are both in school and don't live near each other, but the friends have spoken several times and hope to meet in person someday soon. "Until then, FaceTime and social media will have to do," Tran said.
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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