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More than a meeting

Dec 14

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About four years ago, I met my current boyfriend at a meeting I attended. I was supposed to go to an upper portion of the state I was living in and meet with a group of folks who had concerns about their area and the services that the state was providing. As I sat perpendicular to the man who later became my boyfriend, more was going on than a meeting.

There was a dinner afterwards and I decided to sit at the same table as this man. During the meal, we discussed issues he was having with local media and I offered to assist. We exchanged telephone numbers so we could be in touch.

The following week, he called me for advice on a story that appeared in his local paper. We also discussed a project I was working on and agreed to meet halfway between both locales for lunch in the near future.

Things changed for me, and I decided to leave the state I was in and to move back east. Right before I moved, this man called me to see what was going on. I told him I was moving, but would be in touch.

Two months later, I called him about some help he needed with a project to put him in touch with another person I knew who could be of help.

And, from time to time, we talked. We eventually agreed to meet in Chicago at a hotel to see what we wanted to do in terms of the blossoming friendship.

And, ever since that day, we have been together. All from a chance meeting.

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How I Met My Wife

Dec 7

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My name is Danny Kofke and I met my wife through a chance encounter.

I was an elementary education major and, during my last semester, was assigned to student teach at a school down the road from my house. A week before school started, I got a call from my college saying the teacher I was assigned to teach with was no longer at that school so I was assigned to teach at a completely different school with another teacher.

At this new assigned school, I met my wife-to-be, Tracy. She was a first grade teacher there and we fell in love pretty quickly and wed less than one year later.

It has been ten years since we met through this chance encounter and I often think how different my life would be if the teacher I was originally assigned to had not transferred.

Tracy and I have had a wonderful 10 years together. We have lived and taught in Europe, have 2 beautiful daughters and basically have great lives because of someone else’s decision. I feel that we were met to be together – she is my soulmate – and am so fortunate to have met her!

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The Plane Ride

Oct 21

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I was 23 and ready to graduate college with a confusion of what to do after school was over. My dad is a pilot and I fly standby on United flights. After playing competitive tennis all of my life, my knee had been completely swollen and in pain for about 6 months. I had been to many different doctors with no explanation of what was wrong with me. So I sucked it up and decided to use my standby pass to fly up to the Mayo Clinic in MN. I was waiting at the O’Hare airport and I spotted a cute guy. I was waiting in line at the security counter and the cute guy said “can i see your passport?” because he had always wanted a passport. We talked for a few minutes and then went our separate ways. Well, I saw him again at the gate, waiting to get on the flight to MN. He said he was going to visit a friend and go to the White Sox game. Turned out that his dad was a pilot for United also so he was flying standby. We both were bumped off of the flight and had a few hours until the next one. We went to the bar and had a drink and a truly great time. I really enjoyed this guys company. So we waited to get on the next flight and he did (his dad had better seniority for the airline) so we said goodbye, without exchanging info. It was a bit sad because i really liked this guy. SOO…2 days later, I am waiting at the MN airport to fly back to Chicago and I’m at the gate, and all of a sudden I see the boy! He and I were now at the Minnesota Airport waiting to get on the exact same flight back to Chicago! So we both got on, exchanged info, and went our separate ways once the plane landed in Chicago. We lived in different cities but tried to date. We tried to do the distance relationship thing but after a certain time, we realized it was too difficult. During the time we dated, Tim taught me so much about life, traveling, adventure, that i decided upon graduating that i wanted to travel, volunteer, and work abroad. And it’s exactly what I did and now, looking back 3 years ago, I see that I’m so happy with the route my life has taken and I have Tim to thank for that.

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A Chance Encounter

Sep 23

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This story was sent in by Cheryl Miller.

When I was a young mother of 3 boys, I became a foster parent to two girls, ages 5 & 6. They were a part of my family for two years, until just before my divorce. After the girls were placed in their next foster home, the agency recommended that they have no contact to insure bonding with the new foster mother- even though I missed them and wanted to make sure that they were doing well. I ran into the girls at the Blockbuster one evening about a year after they left my home, but there were no phone calls, no letters, etc.

I had just become engaged to a man in Atlanta, almost 1,000 miles away, and was in the process of wrapping up the many strands of my life in Chicago, where I’d lived for almost 20 years. I was making a trip down to Atlanta with my son Mark to visit my fiancee Steve during Spring Break 2000, just a few months before I was to leave Chicago forever.

We checked into our flight, which was leaving Chicago, routing through Kansas City, MO and then going on to Atlanta, As we settled into our plane seats, finding our buckles, etc. who would walk down the aisle, but my two former foster girls. This was almost 8 years since I’d last seen them and we had a great time catching up and meeting their new adoptive mother. I heard about J’s driving lessons (she was now 16) and A’s new cat and her own new bedroom room — NOT shared with her sister.  After we landed, we caught up and then continued on to California to a wedding while my son Mark and I continued on to Atlanta and our new life.

This was such a blessing to me to finally find out what happened to my two little girls and it was because of a chance encounter at one of the busiest airports in the country. It tied up one loose end and eased my mind before I made my big move to my new life in Atlanta.

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