Vault: He's Been Looking For His Love For Over 17 Years!

0:00I'm a musician. I've been in bands since I was 16. I had a high school sweetheart, and we used to play extreme all the time. I band played it with our song. Anytime that comes on, it just kills me. And we broke up when I was 17. I'm 34 now. I don't think a day has gone by or I haven't think about it. I'm still in love. I've tried to find a million times on my face and Facebook and all that stuff, and I can't never ever find her. Can't be our hopeless romance, right? I know. So sweet, though. I felt the same way here and it again. It was like the first time. Hey, Craig, good morning. Good morning. Hey, welcome back. Oh, nervous this morning. Well, I mean, 17 years ago, you and Heather, welcome. And it's accurate to say that you have thought about her every single day for 17 years. Yeah, pretty much, even if it was just a second or she was my the person that I measured everyone up to. Why do you think you haven't been able to let her go?

1:00It was my fault and the circumstances of our breakup and everything. And then I was young. I was decided to go into the military. And I think that was that's an intensified it a little bit because I was alone. I was in Europe. And you know, the last real girlfriend that I had banded like that. I had a lot of time to think. Now, you've been married since then. Yes. You've had children a totally different life. I mean, obviously over the last 17 years, your life goes in one direction or her life goes in another direction. But you write in your email that through all that stuff every single day you've thought about her. Yeah, I never obsessed about it or anything, but I always thought about her even when my kids were born and everything I always wondered. You know, I think everybody has that one and she was mine. Do you secretly hope that she's still available? It wouldn't be bad. I do think this will be good for you because I would so hate for if, you know, as the mother of your children for you to wonder about having the children with someone else or being with somebody else. So I think this will be good for you either way, either you can pursue it with her or actually 100% pursuit with somebody else instead of always measuring them up to her.

2:05And you realize the nostalgia of the whole thing could make it more romantic and intense than it could be maybe today. You know, me either one of us are those people anymore. You always retain a part of that. If the circumstances were that she was available and didn't still hate me then, yeah, I would love to hear again. You say still hate me was the break up really bad one? I think so. She'll tell you I was devastated, you know. It was my fault, but I was still the one that was devastated. So, you know, I tried and tried and tried and begged to get her back and she just wasn't hearing it. You retain a part of that person that you were, but, you know, I mean, throughout my experiences and everything that I've been through, obviously a completely different person. Right. So let me ask you this. And I know we got your name and we got her name a while ago. And Blue Dog investigations and producer Tracy have been working very hard and trying to get in touch with her. So, Tracy, where are we right now? Well, Blue Dog found an address for me.

3:06So we knew exactly where she was and then I did a little more research too based on that information and found an email address for her. I wasn't sure if it was the right girl. So I emailed her and just kind of said, you know, hey, did you go to this high school? Did you live in this area? And it turned out to be her. And she was very, very nice. I have not asked her if she's been married because, you know, I didn't exactly get into the whole reason Craig was looking for her. However, I can say that her last name hasn't changed. So she either didn't get married. Or she kept her last name. And I asked her if she would come on the air with us. All I've told her at this point was that, you know, first I said somebody from your past was looking for you explained who we were. And then she went a little bit more information. So, you know, I did tell her it was Craig. And based on an email I had gotten from Craig, I didn't seem to think that that would be a problem with him because he had given me, you know, a message to relate to her. He's ready to put it out there. So she said, oh my gosh, wow, small world. Yes, I did date him.

4:06You know, I asked her if she'd be willing to come on the air with us just because this is the kind of thing that we do. And she said she wanted to talk to me further about it like on the phone rather than via email. But she said she was willing. She just wanted the information up front. And then that was over Christmas break. And then I hadn't heard from her for like several weeks. So I was getting nervous that she might have backed out. Finally, yesterday she got back in touch with me and said, so sorry, I've been out of town for work. She's really, really busy. Apparently she has a full-time job and she teaches. So we're just trying to line up schedules at this point to try and find a time that works for her that she can talk to me first and then get her on the radio. So we can do this one of a couple of different ways, depending on what she's most comfortable with, is we get the 10 questions that you want most to ask her. We'll get them from you and we can either ask them to her on the air or we will send her a list of those 10 questions. She will answer them and then we will read them to you as she answered them on the air.

5:06And she depends on her schedule. It all depends on what she wants to do. She did, because I gave her that option when I thought that she wasn't getting back in touch with me. And she did ask to do it that way only because of her schedule. But then I tried to convince her to come on the air. So I think I'm not sure which one she's going to do. Well, producer Tracy can be very persuasive. What I haven't done. You're trying to be finding her right away. That's awesome. She sounds sweet on air but Tracy. She has her way. She's a great dog man. What I haven't done though is told her why Craig has been looking for and how much Craig has been thinking about her for the past 17 years. Good. Good. That's good. I think that's totally clear. And you are going to say she's not local, right? She is not local. Okay. Okay. So we're going to see how this plays out over the next couple of days. We'll see if she wants to come on with us and if not, then we'll get her answers. And sometime over the next 48 hours, we'll have those 10 answers that you sent to her. We'll have the, I should say the questions that you sent. We'll have the answers. Okay. So chew on this for 24 hours and we'll see what kind of reaction we can get from out of her. I mean, ideally she comes on and she answers the 10 questions. Right.

6:06Oh, my God. Don't nervous. Yeah. Well, at this point, you got zero to lose. Right. Zero. It's been something I've been thinking about for so long and now that I'll just communicate whether our course is real. All right. We'll give us a couple of days and we'll put it all together and we'll see how it all pans out. The first show.