Here is the secret of staying in touch with people: Don't email them, don't talk to them, don't give them any information on your where abouts for 25 years and let them Google you!!!
This way they will send your employer an email asking about you...this is the second time (two different persons) that this happens to me...I still don't know if the new "employer" has sent my email address, the way the last one did, or whether they just forwarded the email they received.
Any body who knows me knows to NEVER EVER give my phone number, email address or anything like this to ANYBODY under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Jeeze I hate Google!!!!