tanguerra
Moderator Emeritus
From time to time I come across stories in the newspaper that are so 'out there' I can't help but think if someone wrote into the forum about this as a past life memory, people would say, 'no way, that's too weird'. But, sometimes 'weird' things do indeed happen.
So, since it's not strictly reincarnation related, this is the spot for things like that. I thought it might be fun to post stories that people might come across from real life that are 'stranger than fiction' or in other ways are very interesting or inspiring from a 'karma' point of view.
To start it off, how's this one:
High School sweethearts reunite and marry after 50 years
So, since it's not strictly reincarnation related, this is the spot for things like that. I thought it might be fun to post stories that people might come across from real life that are 'stranger than fiction' or in other ways are very interesting or inspiring from a 'karma' point of view.
To start it off, how's this one:
High School sweethearts reunite and marry after 50 years
It sounds like something straight out of a cheeseball Rachel McAdams/Ryan Gosling flick: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, man finds and marries woman 50 years later. But for Diane Harris and Rodney Day, the Hollywood ending is reality.
The Californians were high school sweethearts back in 1959. One late summer night, the couple was driving home from a drive-in movie -- as Harris told the Napa Valley Register, she can't recall the film because, "I don't think we really watched it that much."
Day must have drifted off to sleep, because when he woke up, the car was in a ditch, and his girlfriend had gone through the windshield. The sweethearts were taken to different medical centers -- Day was in the military and went to a local Air Force base for treatment, while Harris went to a nearby hospital.
Diane Harris's mother did not approve of the pairing, so the elder Harris used the accident as an opportunity to break the couple up. Mom told both teens that the other one wanted to end it, and Harris and Day never saw each other again.
Fast-forward 50 years to this April. Harris had been married and divorced twice, and Day became a widower in 2007. Day tracked down his high school sweetheart and sent her a letter. The two began emailing, and the couple married on October 17 at an Elks Lodge in Napa, Calif. Day told the New York Post, "It was like 50 years apart hadn't happened." (Want a good cry? Watch the video clip of the nuptials at the Napa Valley Register's site.)...