Inevitable Romance

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First Thursday: I don't go to the bar after work as I usually do with my coworker. The next day she says she met the man of my dreams and tells me his name. Thursday two weeks later: I go to the bar, see a cute guy, decide to go home with him. I think he'd been expecting his place to be empty, but his housemate who I immediately see and think is much more attractive than the housemate who'd I'd come home with was there and so introductions were made. I am floored by the fact that I've run into the dream guy on accident, because my plans were to go home with his friend, not find him. The 3 of us make small talk, and I ask him why he hadn't been at the bar earlier. His response was that he wasn't a fan of it, the time he was there two weeks ago was his first and last time going there. Now I'm amazed that we've run into each other at all, and it's clear to me that he finds me as intriguing as I do. Diego and I stay up talking through the night and we begin dating and it lasts for 2 years. We discover that prior to this "first" encounter, we'd actually met at a wedding 3 years earlier. Our significant others at the time were both related to the bride, and so we'd attended and been seated at the same table.
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Date submitted:Fri, 28 Sep 2012 05:04:49 +0000Coincidence ID:6498