It's hard to describe that sinking feeling one would get when finding out a
loved one is aboard a flight that has gone missing. While hundreds of family
members cried, wondered and worried about what may have happened in the hours
after news broke, one person got a very welcome piece of information over
Twitter.
A woman in the U.S. named Cylithria Dubois tweeted the news of the
Malaysia Airlines flight going down and then said she was freaking out. She then
sent out four tweets over the next hour and a half. Ninety minutes that we can
only assume were the longest 90 minutes of her life. Finally, a U.S. businessman
named Kaiden IV on Twitter wrote back saying he missed his flight and that he
and the person he was travelling with are okay.
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| A helicopter prepares to land onboard the China Maritime Safety Administration (MSA) ship Haixun-31 during a brief stop in Sanya in southern China's Hainan province, Sunday, March 9, 2014 |
Dubois has not responded to
media requests for an interview, but released a statementtoday.
"Kaiden
is my best friend, my buddy, my guy, He's the man I love with all of my heart,
even if I didn't realize it in full, before this. The moment I feared he was
gone from earth was excruciating," she wrote on her blog. "There are no words to
convey the overwhelming relief or gratitude that flooded me when I saw his
tweets to me. When I was able to reach out and touch his cheek, I felt like the
most unworthy human in our entire race. My gratitude is that
profound."
Dubois goes on to explain she is deeply sorry for the pain
everyone is enduring who is going through what she describes as her "personal
hell."
(Disclaimer: We can't independently confirm Kaiden missed his
flight or the relationship between him and Dubois.)
Here's how it played
out.
