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.'"

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

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.