Fate to Meet

I was sweet 16 when the Sun Newpaper were advertising for penfriends for Military Personnel who didnt get mail in the Falklands War . I wrote and a guy wrote back to me called Steve Cass and he was serving with the RAF as mechincal Transport. He was a big bloke 6ft 4ins in his twenties. We wrote twice a week for 6 months, planed to meet etc and then it stopped heared nothing from him ever again. I joined the RAF in September 1984 as Telecommuications and my training would send me to RAF Cosford, but i took very ill whilst training and missed my course, so when i cam out of hospital i had three choices as a trade to choose. To be a cook, to work in a supply depot or to be a driver for the RAF i asked do they teach you to drive as i couldnt drive at the time. Yes they said and so i went as Mechincal Transport did all my training in Wales and my first posting was RAF Chessington in Surrey. It was a very small unit and one of the drivers picked me up called David. I asked him how many was there in the section he said just 7 of us which included me. He stated to name the drivers and their ranks and the last person is said was a guy called Steve Cass big bloke 6ft 4. I couldnt belive it was it my pen friend ? Kept it to my self until i got there. Soon as i saw him he hadnt changed at all in the photo but he didnt know me. I plucked up the courage and asked him if he had served during the Falklands war in 1984 he looked at me funny and said how did you know i said do you remember a penfriend who wrote to you , Of course how can i forget a picture of a girl in a furcoat. Well thats me!!!! he dropped his cup of tea and thats the story ,we became best of friends but now have lost contact now, but i did find out that he even got married on the same day has me. how that for a coincidence