Chance meeting
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After the 67th time of my asking her my wife agreed to marry me. I told friends of this and, naturally, they were surprised at her decision. One of them was a friend who was General Manager of the Shangri La Resort hotel in Fiji. He suggested we got married there. We agreed and arranged our trip which included a stay with friends in San Francisco. Whilst there they took us to Carmel, a resort South of San Fransisco. We spent a while walking around Carmel before going to the beach to relax. I lay on the beach with my eyes closed when I became aware of someone standing between me and the sun. A lady spoke and asked "How did the wedding go, Huw?" The voice belonged to a receptionist from a small surgery in Pencoed, Bridgend, whom I had told of my trip to Fiji. She and her husband had stopped at Carmel by chance for lunch and petrol en route from San Diego to San Francisco. Their trip was arranged after mine and they had decided to spend a few extra days in San Francisco. Is it not strange that you can never find your children on the beach and yet she came across me almost half-way around the World?
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:38:40 +0000Coincidence ID:5461
