is that your final answer?

Today afternoon I booted up firefox, and discovered that my gmail notifier had a number 2 next to it.

Wow, it thought. 2 emails? it's been ages since my last one.

So the page loaded, and a minute later I was transported to my inbox. Sure enough, there were 2 messages. One was from a online adult webcam service that I playfully signed up for, and the other one was titled "TFL Lost property service".

Hot Shit.

Could this be? That I might actually get my passport back intact?

Hot Shit.

My mind went bonkers. It's like being zapped with electricity, you're thinking so fast, and yet you're not thinking at all. I swear I could feel the blood pumping in my veins.

Here is the email in it's entirety.

Dear Mr Wong

Thank you for your enquiry about Lost Property.

We are sorry to inform you that we have been unable to locate the property that was lost.

Yours sincerely

Lost Property Office
Transport for London
200 Baker Street
London NW1 5RZ
Tel: 0845 330 9882 (UK)
+44 (20) 7486 5772 (Non UK)
Fax: 020 7918 1028

www.tfl.gov.uk/lpo

Data protection: The data we hold now or in the future will be processed by Transport for London for the purpose of Lost Property administration. It may be passed to law enforcement authorities if it is considered necessary for the prevention and detection of crime, and when otherwise legally required.

Fraud: To avoid any doubt, a fraudulent lost property claim is theft.

As part of our continuing efforts to improve our services to our customers, TfL undertakes, from time to time, research aimed at identifying strengths and opportunities. We may contact you in the next few weeks via our appointed research agency, GFK NOP, in connection with your recent communication with us. If you are contacted, we would greatly appreciate your contribution to the research survey. Any information that you give would be totally confidential and you would not be identified personally. If you do not wish to be contacted for research purposes, please could you let us know.

This email has been generated by our Lost Property computer system using template “No Trace.dot”.

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The contents of the e-mail and any transmitted files are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Transport for London hereby exclude any warranty and any liability as to the quality or accuracy of the contents of this email and any attached transmitted files. If you are not the intended recipient be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited.

If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster@tfl.gov.uk.

This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses.
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Sure, you who are reading this aren't onr of the email's intended recipients, but who the hell cares? Sigh. Well I'll still get home somehow, or heads will roll.

Suddenly I am reminded how hard it is to believe in something when everything around you seems to be erecting a barrier, discouraging and preventing you from believing in it. But nevertheless I must succeed.

House sure don't cure his patients by thinking he was wrong, after all.