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Dave & I
would like to share our story with you. We think it is a truly
amazing story, & hope you do too.
On November
19th,2004, a Tulsa Realtor, Dave Wagenblatt, called me
wanting to show some of my listings to a couple coming in from
Florida. I explained to him that his
key pad for the lock boxes here wouldn’t work on these lock boxes,
& that would make it extremely difficult for him to show
property here. I went
on to tell him that I typically pay a referral fee to out of area
Realtors, & show the buyers myself. He said he would have to
rethink the whole thing, & would call back. Well fifteen minutes later
he called back & had spoken with his manager who advised him to
refer his customers to Debbie Irvin. He laughed & said that’s
who he was already talking to (first coincidence). Okay, here’s where the
amazing story begins, in this ONE conversation, Dave & I
discovered we had the following in common:
1.
The Florida
buyers that Dave was referring had also contacted me, but their son
who didn’t want to move was deleting all my messages. Dave had actually finally
gotten a hold of the father personally.
2.
Dave lost his
wife, Peggy, also unexpectedly, about 3 months before I lost
Stan. We had both
discovered our spouses dead, & both from a heart
attack.
3.
Dave had grown
up about a mile from me in Tulsa, & had even known some of
my neighbors.
4.
Dave had an
adorable Shih-Tzu named Dee Dee. I had two Shih-Tzus named
Molly & Hunter.
We must have
talked an hour discovering all these coincidences, & decided we
should meet. We had
such an easy conversation, had so much in common, & sharing
grief as an initial bond. We emailed back &
forth, & had a few more phone conversations, then Dave came up
to Grand Lake to meet me December 2
of 2004. I showed him around the
lake, & we tried to find the place he used to come to when he
was a child. We talked
& talked & talked.
After he went home, we continued to have phone conversations
every day or two. About
a week after we met, we discovered the biggest coincidence of
all. It turns out
Dave’s son had bought the SAME house in Broken Arrow,
that Stan & I had bought & got married in! Dave had just sold it for
his son a couple of months earlier. We were both for once
speechless with that discovery.
To make a longer
story, shorter……Dave came up December 15th, 2004 to help
me move into my condo I had just bought & remodeled. He moved up here in February
of 2005, rented my house that I was planning on putting on the
market, & joined me in real estate sales. Turns out that he’s a real
web site guru, like Stan was.
Anyway, we were married on November 19th 2005…..a
year to the date from the day we came into each other’s lives. We still miss Stan &
Peggy, & always will……but now we have each other. I never expected in my
wildest dreams to be fortunate enough to not only be able to love
again, but to also find another soul-mate. It’s incredible! God
truly does work in mysterious ways. It was like we were guided
to each other at the most depressing time of the year for anyone who
has lost a loved one.
Nov. 19th, 2004 was less than a week before
Thanksgiving.
That’s our
story, & we continue to discover more & more
coincidences. We
also hope our story might help anyone else who is struggling with
the loss of a loved one.
When one door closes, it seems another
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