James Garish is no spelling bee champ, but he never forgot the tricky string of letters that add up to the last name of his kindergarten crush, Elizabeth Stipkovits. He also never forgot the girl behind the name. Which is why he typed it into his laptop one lonely night in 2010 while serving in the Army in Iraq.
“I was just sitting there in my bunk, and I started wondering how life had turned out for her,” said Mr. Garish, 34. McKeesport, Pa., the working-class city where he and Ms. Stipkovits grew up, wasn’t always reminiscent of picnics and parades for Mr. Garish; he dropped out of school at 14 and spent more than half a decade in dead-end jobs before enlisting in the Army in 2008.
Still, he wasn’t immune to homesickness. So upon finding Ms. Stipkovits’s profile on Facebook, he sent a friend request.
Still, he wasn’t immune to homesickness. So upon finding Ms. Stipkovits’s profile on Facebook, he sent a friend request.
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