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Before I continue I have to explain I’ve always had ‘weird’ things happen to me; the unexpected. Like the time I was with a friend going to Dickenson, North Dakota and they were going over the speed limit. I had a gut feeling there was a Highway Patrol just up the road and told them to slow down. They didn’t believe me and yep, we were pulled over. My friend just stared at me and said, “I HATE it when you do that!”

“Do what?” I asked, laughing.

“Know what’s going to happen before it does!”

Well, you would think them knowing that they would have listened to me. But they didn’t, so they got a ticked at that time, as well as four hours later on the return trip and the EXACT same thing happened. I’d even told them, looking at the speedometer, “You know….” I drawled, “There is a cop up ahead and he’s going to pull you over.”

“Can’t be,” the person denied. “Not twice in one day and….shit.”

Yep; same officer too.

I tell you this only because having the President of Fabio’s fan club call my out of the blue was unexpected and weird, yet completely normal for me. She was calling me in regard to a letter I had written to Fabio….I can’t help it, I was just as crazy as thousands of other woman over Fabio at the time. The conversation doesn’t matter, but I’d no sooner hung up the phone, walked into the living room and said to my parents, “Now I know I’ll get married one day because one of the strangest things just happened to me,” and the phone rang. Upon answering it I discovered it was the mother of a gal I worked with at the time and this is what she said….
“Janette, I know this guy. I work with him. I’ve told you about you and he wants to meet you. Can he call you?”

Believe me, I was laughing. After all, I’d just had the phone call of the century and now I had a woman I hardly knew telling me she was setting me up with someone?
Even for me this was strange and sure, he could call me.

I hung up the phone, stunned. Walked back into the living room, raised my finger and said to my bewildered parents who hadn’t a clue what was going on, “Not only do I know I’m getting married….”