title: How We Met: Chance Encounters and Other True Love Stories of Real-Life Couples
author:  Miriam Sokol 
description: The road not taken. The one that got away. Serendipitous meetings. These are the stories that populate <i>How We Met</i>, an anthology of "chance encounters and other true love stories of real-life couples." They are stories of enduring affection that transcends time and distance until the couples eventually find their way to one another through happenstance or dogged perseverance. That fork in the road eventually circles back to the right path. The one that got away is found again. Romance blooms at stoplights. Sometimes it takes a week or a month, sometimes years--even decades--for the lovers to find each other and acknowledge their bond. In the end, they all live happily ever after--or at least that's what we hope: nearly all the stories conclude with marriage.
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  # One More Chance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Jennifer Youngblood
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2021 by Jennifer Youngblood.
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or
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  Dedicated with love to Shelby, Sophia, and Mayla.
  
  
  There are friendships that are born out of circumstance. And then there are
  those rare, exceptional occurrences where if you put two people in a room with
  a thousand other people, they will inevitably find one another every time.
  Shelby is one of those such friends. God put her in my path many years ago,
  and I will be forever grateful. She is truly my angel on earth!
  
  
  Thank you, Shel, for all