"Some Enchanted Evening" Script No. 6
February 14, 2003

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Some enchanted evening
You will see a stranger
You will see a stranger
Across a crowded room ...

Dale Connelly: Some Enchanted Evening ... stories of unlikely romance arising from unexpected circumstances. This note comes from our listener Pat, who says:

Beth Gilleland: I met Dave through our shared love of bicycling, but it was truly fate that brought us together.

I taught adult education in Frazee, and was interviewed for the local newspaper about my classes. I started talking with the reporter about bikes, and he said he had interviewed a local guy a few months earlier who had done a lot of cycling. The reporter gave me Dave's number.

I went out on a limb and called him. We got together for a bike ride and lunch and had a great time.

Some enchanted evening
Meeting through the paper
Set up by the paper
A friendship starts to bloom

After lunch we were saying good-bye, and I told Dave I had recognized his name from the bike race that I coordinate. The race means a great deal to me because it's named after my first husband, Cal, who died suddenly of a brain aneurysm. He had owned a bicycle shop. Dave got a funny look on his face and said ...

DC: I don't know if you remember this or not, but when you had your liquidation sale at the shop, I'm the one who bought most of your husband's bike tools.

As love stories go ...
The way they're perceived
You couldn't invent it
And still be believed ...

BG: Well, I had not remembered it, but I did keep a journal during that time. I dug out the journal, and sure enough there was an entry for the day of the sale. These were my thoughts:
• "Someone is going through Cal's tools."
• "This is so very hard, but I know it must be."
• Then I wrote: "He seems like a nice guy."

Another ironic twist is that Dave was not even living in the area at the time he bought those tools. He was a pilot and was home on a layover visiting his family when he saw the notice of our small liquidation sale in a newspaper. So naturally I am grateful to God for this wonderful sequence of events, and I am also grateful ... for newspapers

Some Enchanted Evening
Waiting in the paper
Wispy as a vapor
Your fate will find you there.

The thinnest of threads
The tiniest chance
The smallest connection
The sweetest romance.

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