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"Yes, I know," she replied softly.
"Whoa!"
It turns out that she wanted to meet in person this
crazy English photographer she’d been hearing about
who had shown up out of the blue in Lisbon.
That unexpected encounter was the start of a
spontaneous success story that changed my life forever.
The moment I met her, I found myself drawn to her
in ways I couldn't explain. When our hands touched
inadvertently while leaning over to arrange a prop for the
kitten shoot, I felt a rush of energy come up through the
ground, and I heard myself say, "This is the most
ridiculous thing I've ever said in my life, but I love you."
An orchestra inside my head had been going like
crazy since the moment she walked into the studio and
introduced herself, but it suddenly stopped. Wendy was
looking straight at me. "Oh my God," she said
eventually. "What are we going to do now?" I knew she
felt the same way.
We've been together ever since, raising five children
and still deeply in love. It was as if the universe brought
us together in that instant—and we knew it.
Every moment, every choice we make, sets off a chain
reaction of consequences. From the moment we wake up
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