All of this information is so great. I just recently got back in touch with a JW from my former congregation. She had posted her email address on classmates.com, and I thought that since she was making herself available to "worldly" former high school friends, she might also be an inactive JW.
She is, unfortunately, still firmly entrenched, but she has been corresponding with me. We've mainly been catching up on news of people in the congregation. However, she has, I'm afraid, made me her "project" of sorts and has started relating all of the "encouraging" words from recent assemblies to try to "help" me back.
Little does she know, though, that I consider her MY project, also. I'm finding it difficult to refrain from dumping all of this info in her lap, but I know that I have to be patient and ease these points in or she will run from the "apostate" reasoning.
I do know that most of the members of her family are now inactive, although they are still in that critical phase where they could easily slide back in. I'm hoping that perhaps, in time, we may be able to get into some interesting discussions. She's a nice person, and it would be great to be able to re-establish a friendship on neutral ground.