Killed the hard drive

Two months ago the computer and lightening seemed to come together in an unauthorized pairing. One hard drive later I realized that I had lost what was important - my entire email address book and all of my emails regarding Mia's adoption (congrats you've been approved and down the line). I intended to print them out for a book for her but you know what they say about good intentions. It's true. I intended to back it up but couldn't figure out how to find the files. I do now have an awesome tech guy. We call him "the thinker" from his ad and he really is awesome but no one could protect me from my stupidity in arrears. So now I sit wanting to contact special people but I can't. Don't have their addresses. So this is my public service message for the day - friends don't let friends neglect to backup important data. And, if you are one of those friends, I'm at pjoan@bellsouth.net.