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I think the key is knowing what high school she went to. From there, you could possibly get yearbook pictures and student lists. Knowing an approximate age would narrow the possibilities significantly as well.

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I would probably take a social engineering approach to this problem- if you knew her high school and approximate age you could probably find someone who was in that class who would know her pretty easily. At that point it's just a matter of either tricking them into identifying the photo or just straight-up asking them.

They knew what high school she went to (I just found out), but probably didn't know exactly how old she was.

There are no digital yearbooks from the high school. I checked

Or scrolling thru a classmates friends list on Facebook.

And then scrolling thru all the friends lists of all their friends on Facebook.

(Especially if they have nicely sorted their friends into "High School" friends.)

Twitter lets you do the same thing.

I've seen entire classes all "Friend" and "Follow" each other.

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