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**@Aerodyno@** · 09-21-2012, 04:33 PM

finding someone in thailand? ha!!! i read an article about an old malasian lady who couldnt speak english or thai, caught a bus to bangkok to see her sister and her husband found her 20 years later, seems she got on the wrong bus and went on a train and eventually ended up in chiang mai. according to the article she had to beg and borrow to survive until she was eventually found.

that's encouraging thanks

So then am I correct in assuming it will be very hard to do over the phone/mail/internet without actually traveling to Thailand?

Also, as far as Thai culture goes, is there a chance that she would not want to be contacted by him? She is likely remarried with other children and it's possible that her new family wouldn't even know she had a son over 20 years ago.

09-21-2012, 04:33 PM	#7
@Aerodyno@ Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 379 Senior Member	finding someone in thailand? ha!!! i read an article about an old malasian lady who couldnt speak english or thai, caught a bus to bangkok to see her sister and her husband found her 20 years later, seems she got on the wrong bus and went on a train and eventually ended up in chiang mai. according to the article she had to beg and borrow to survive until she was eventually found. that's encouraging thanks So then am I correct in assuming it will be very hard to do over the phone/mail/internet without actually traveling to Thailand? Also, as far as Thai culture goes, is there a chance that she would not want to be contacted by him? She is likely remarried with other children and it's possible that her new family wouldn't even know she had a son over 20 years ago.
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