So here’s how it all happened.
I went to the grocery to pick up a few things for dinner. Me with a list, even. Rather clued into what was going on around me.
As I was walking into the lobby of the store I thought that I recognized another woman walking into the store. I wasn’t sure at first, but I thought that this woman was my R.A. during my sophomore year of college.
At a small liberal arts university nowhere near here. About eleventy hundred years ago.
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As she was grabbing for a shopping cart and turned toward me, I realized that she was, indeed, my R.A. in college, who I hadn’t seen in decades. So I exclaimed her name. Loudly.
Fortunately, she didn’t seem fazed by some crazy woman, moi, shouting at her. And in fact we began to talk. After a few minutes of re-connecting in the lobby of the grocery, she suggested we meet for lunch.
Which we did and had a great time of it. We even plan to get together again next month to continue the conversation.
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This would be the end of the story if it weren’t for the weirdest coincidence that happened later in the day. While at lunch my former R.A. told me that she had grown up in a town that I’d never heard of before, a small town in the next state over.
That evening Z-D came home from work and told me that he had to get up early to drive to a meeting somewhere he had never been to before.
Where was he going? To a little town in the next state over where my R.A. had grown up.
Now what are the odds of that?
All I can say is that “It’s a small world after all!” What a cool thing to happen!
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Beth, I know. Trippy, huh? We all need more positive experiences like this one in our lives.
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What are the odds? Enough for you to quickly rush out and buy a lottery ticket.
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la p, excellent idea. Good luck seems to be on my side lately.
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That is pretty freaky, but also cool. Maybe it was MEANT TO BE! 🙂
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Margaret, it’s one of the stranger happenings in my life! I mean, not in a thousand guesses would I have ever thought that this could happen. Yet, it did.
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That is crazy! I love it when “small world” things like that happen.
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Stephanie, me too. Considering that neither one of us is from this area, it makes this accidental meeting even more unique. And then to have Z-D going to her hometown it is just plain freaky. But way cool, too.
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Maybe one more thing connected to it all will happen. The Rule of Threes and all that. Perhaps the college you went to will be in the news for something major. Be on the lookout!
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nance, I like how you think! Wouldn’t that be too cool for school if it happened? I’ll let you know if it does.
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I love when cool things like that happen. Almost as much as I love bacon and coffee for breakfast, lol.
Glad you found me so I could find you!
Christy
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Christy, thanks for stopping by and commenting. I loved that this happened, but it is rather peculiar on a bunch of levels. Maybe I need to mull it over while eating the breakfast that you suggest. Fat and caffeine will certainly help me figure it all out. 😉
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Weird!!! I don’t believe in coincidences, as I think, no believe, everything happens for a reason. Definitely meant to be.
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I agree that it was meant to be. But for what reason? Can’t wait to find out the the answer to that question!
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I don’t know, it could be some hidden sign or maybe it was something you had to think about (significant for you at that moment)? I’m sure either way it’ll come to light sooner or later!
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And maybe it’ll be such a cool thing to have happen that I’ll have to blog about it! Stay tuned. 🙂
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Cool 🙂
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Getting chills from all the cowinkydinks. Sometimes the universe brings things together like that. 🙂
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Kourtney, I know! I got chills when Z-D told me where he was going. I froze in mid-dinner-fixing and just stared at him. Very trippy, all of it.
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