The Week contest: Ape mail

This week’s question: Scientists have found that chimps appear to have the ability to recognize friends and groupmates even after years of separation. In seven or fewer words, come up with the subject line of an email from a lonely primate looking to reconnect.
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RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: Long time no see, hear, speak
Frederick Scheeren, Centreville, Virginia
SECOND PLACE: Just curious, George…
Liz Ullman, Denver, Colorado
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THIRD PLACE: Let’s get the troop back together!
Darren Oustafine, Norwalk, Connecticut
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Remember me? I was the hairy one!
Daniel Hicks, Randolph, Massachusetts
Gorillas in my midst?
John Holler, Buffalo, Minnesota
Bob, we threw poop together. Call me.
Richard Wolf, Westminster, Maryland
Missing the chimp off the old block
Robert Berest, Manhasset, New York
We last met atop Empire State Building
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachusetts
Let’s go hang out — literally
Ken Kellam III, Dallas, Texas
Alumnus of Jane Goodall U: How hanging?
John Haug, Roeland Park, Kansas
You’re the missing link in my life
Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Was picking lice today…thought of you
Kenneth Burgan, Grass Valley, California
We’ll have a Goodall time
Jesse Rifkin, Arlington, Virginia
Long time no preen
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Virginia
Return to me, my little chimpanzee…”
Mark Flandreau, Waxhaw, North Carolina
Ooo, ooo ooo ooo! — ooo@ooo.ooo
Michael Maggio, Galloway, New Jersey
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