We visited our friends in New York this weekend. I was chatting about my friend’s dad, who passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer several years ago. I vaguely recall attending his funeral, but it was a bit of a hazy memory for whatever reason.

As I was thinking about this, trying hard to remember if I made the trip, a very specific domain name came to my mind. I don’t know why, but I distinctly remember sitting in the parking lot of the Long Island funeral home having a conversation with a representative from the company that owned this domain name I had been trying to buy for a while. As I recall, the conversation was productive and we reached a deal shortly after our phone call.

I looked through my email records for the domain name + Escrow.com, and I found the closing statement. I then looked in my email for information about the funeral, and I found an email from my friend the month prior. The dates aligned with my memory.

It’s now been more than seven years since my friend’s dad passed away. He was a great person, and he is one of the reasons the Pan-Mass Challenge fundraiser holds great importance to me. It’s crazy that it was a phone conversation about a domain name that reminded me I attended his funeral, and all of the other details about it came into focus.