As we reported several days ago, an unusual internet search was started on Reddit, where one user posted in the r/Croatia subreddit, hoping to find their mother's best friend, someone the mother remembered only as Blaženka from Rijeka.

When we wrote the first story, there were already some hints on Twitter that people who knew this misterious "Blaženka from Rijeka", recognized her wanted to help, and now we're happy to report that it's exactly what happened. Alenka Juričić writes for Rijeka's daily Novi list how a friend of Blaženka's recognized her from an old photo posted on Reddit (and published in Novi list), told her that her old friend from the United States was looking for her and they were able to get in touch!

Blaženka works at a newsstand in Opatija these days (which sort of raises the question of why she didn't see her own childhood photo in the printed edition of Novi list, but that's splitting hairs) and was happy to hear from her old friend Verica, who moved to the States as a teenager, to stay with her mom who had moved there some time before she did.

Blaženka says she never forgot her childhood best friend, and that she was extremely happy to have been given a chance to renew the friendship. Now that the two friends have spoken over the telephone for the first time in decades, they've agreed that Verica will visit Rijeka and Blaženka as soon as possible!

So, let's never again hear about how the internet just alienates people. There are so many moving stories with a happy end, just like this one. 

Reddit user u/marleysapmarleysap posted in the r/Croatia subreddit a couple of days ago, asking an unusual question: does anyone know Blaženka from Rijeka?

As she explains in the post, her mom is trying to find her former best friend, a woman who she remembes only as Blaženka, and who was her best friends when they were children. They were both students of the Pedagoška gimnazija Vladimira Nazora high-school, in the years 1977-1979, and have not seen each other since the poster's mom left Rijeka and moved to the US. 

The information the poster's mom seems to remember about her best friend is scarse, she does not remember the friend's last name (and that could've easily been changed by now!), and the only important other piece of information she has is that the friend Blaženka was somewhere from Bosnia. They've tried contacting the school, but unfortunately their records have been destroyed, so no luck there either.

The search has made rounds on the Internet (if there wasn't social media, we're guessing that there wouldn't be ANY chance to find someone with this much information), and has even appeared in Rijeka-based Novi list. In the past hour, one new account has appeared on Reddit, claiming that they know who Blaženka is, and that they can help put her in contact with the family that's looking for her from the States. Hopefully this is another one of those "long-lost friends" that will eventually come to a happy ending, both for Blaženka from Rijeka and for her childhood friend.