Had a crush on a girl in South Africa when i was 14 years old (1977). Left the country soon after, spent a couple of years traveling with my mom after my parents got divorced, never had any contact with her at all ever again. Ended up living in the UK. Flash forward to I was just about to turn 18 and I'm in Amsterdam, long haired hippie that I was, walking back to where I was staying after busking with my guitar all day in the square. I'm looking into a shop window and bump into some girl. Turn to apologize and it's the girl that I had had a crush on in South Africa almost 4 years before and over 5,000 miles away....
That's when I realized that it's a small planet.
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