人多好辦事

如果把這一切交給私家偵探，大概一星期後我就可以知道所有的細節，不過，這一切將會變得無趣及變態。

經過了一場大病、電腦中毒、以$150找人修復好彼發現喇叭失聲，再捧到店子追究，結果發現只是自己插錯電線、上癮般的不停編織毛線帽、跳舞跳到快散開等等的累人事件之後，18日的等待，仍然得不到Anne小姐的回覆。我想了三個原因去解釋這件事:

1.她不想理我

2.我的郵件被分到了垃圾郵件分類

3.英國人分工太仔細，photographic library manager並不願意處理人事問題

在前兩天的學校畢業禮上，我與Fuse開了一個二人秘密尋人會議，一人一書，一起討論接下來的尋人行動，當中不幸的我們一直被一些「朋友」干擾著...

Fuse在之前有搜尋過Jeff Edwards的資料，找到了一個近似目標的article，馬上寄了一封超長的e-mail:

Dear Mr./ Ms. Colin O'Toole

I have read an article on your website, titled 'Work was fun in swinging sixties'.
(http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/ourtown/memorylane/display.var.543373.0.work_was_fun_in_swinging_sixties.php)
 
I am not sure am I writing to the right person but I need you help genuinely, as you might able to help me to find a photographer called Jeff Edwards.

I read a book called 'Fashions of a Decade: The 1960s' and I am really interested in a photo and a girl on it.

I had asked the owner of this photo, The Camera Press, for more details,

they told me that the photo was taken by a photographer called Jeff Edwards.

They also told me the photo shows a wedding taking place at a hippy commune in Surbiton, Surrey, England.

As the article on your website mentioned, there was a photographer called Jeff Edwards too, who was working in your company in 1960s.

The article's author seemd to be friend with Jeff Edwards and a photographer called, John McDonald.

According to the information I have, I guess 'Jeff Edwards' mentioned in the article is the photographer I am finding.

Would you mind telling me any details of this person? And any ways that I can contact him?

If you do not have any information about Jeff Edwards,

would you mind giving me the ways that I can contact the article's editor and the photographer, John McDonald?

The photographer, Jeff Edwards, is really important for me.
 
He is the key to find the girl shown on the photo as well as the story behind it.
 
I sincerely hope you can give me a hand.
 
I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Fuse Tsang

而得到的回覆是:

  Thanks for your email. I'm sorry we don't have any connections going back that far. If you want to write a letter appealing for anyone who knew him and saying why you want to know, we could consider it for publication.

Regards, Colin Colin O'Toole

Assistant Editor

Surrey Comet and Kingston Guardian

廢。但

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這已經是我在上一年寫下的網誌，我完全忘記了我想說的是「廢。但什麼什麼」。

沒想到我已經荒廢了這個計劃一整年而把一大篇文章放到草稿匣內，我想是時候把它解放出來了。至於尋人計劃的進展？容後再說。