the poem & the angel (or ghost)

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A woman and I planned to go to the Ferris Wheel at Santa Monica pier, so I wrote her a poem in which I said "We would see angels high atop the Ferris Wheel'. The next day on the wheel, directly behind us, all alone in a gondola was a beautiful little blond girl staring straight ahead without emotion. We both said that it seemed very very dangerous for such a little girl to be alone on the wheel. When we got off we both looked at the gondola behind us as it came to the exit to see the girl get off...but NO ONE WAS THERE . We looked all around the ride fearing she had fallen off the ride and then asked the worker about the little girl, and he said he had put no such girl on the ride.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:30:35 +0000Coincidence ID:5219