This story is about my girlfriend of 22 years. The way we met is not that unusual but the similarities that followed were extraordinary and we will be "sisters" forever.
I was at the local YMCA taking an exercise class to lose some of my baby fat from my second child. One night during class, I looked over and saw a woman who reminded me of a soap opera star. My mom and I watched a soap called "Loving" and she looked like a beautiful woman whose role name was "Ava." (Many years after we became friends, her niece named her daughter Ava - not knowing the story of how we met!!!)
I went over to her after class and told her that she resembled this adorable woman. She very nicely replied, "I don't watch soap operas." We started talking after a few classes passed and realized that we had sons in the same kindergarten class, we both taught piano and lived 3 minutes away from each other.
We became friends and walked and talked every morning before our children got on the school bus. We did this for 10 years until we moved far enough away that walking became impossible but we remained friends.
We socialized with our spouses and other friends in common, had our piano recitals together, and did a variety of other things together.
There are two other things that I feel are huge coincidences. Her next door neighbors used to shop at a supermarket that I worked in when I was a teenager -about 15 years from then. They always came through my cash register line and their son was also in my son's kindergarten class. We also became very good friends in the years that followed. And her other neighbor across the street was a woman that I went to high school with whose son ended up becoming friends with my son!
We both feel that we are truly connected by something other than chance....what do you think?
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