Across the pond

My friend & I were out for a drink one evening about 23 years ago, & I heard American voices behind us. Being the nosy type, I turned & asked what part of the USA the elderly couple were from. Their response was that I had probably not heard of Lincoln, Nebraska. To their surprise I told them that my daughter had recently started studying on a swimming scholarship at that very university. The man turned out be the architect who designed the building Allison was studying in! Later that year we went to stay with them whilst visiting Allison, whom they had taken under their wing following our meeting in that pub in Cambridge. But for my nosiness, we would never had met the very architect who had such an impact on the University where Allison spent 4 very happy years!