Who would have believed that a chance encounter in grade school would have led to the eventual births of ten more people? Childhood friends (hard not to be when you have a class of maybe 30 the whole way through school), eventual "sweethearts" and now husband and wife of more than 51 years and 3 children and 7 grandchildren. Add in 4 step-grandchildren, which they have embraced in a way I never would have expected anyone to, part of our family because of my own encounter. Makes you wonder what exactly it is that makes these encounters different from others, and how you "just know"?
