A Familiar Soul

I was thinking about this today and thought that is was so worth blogging about even thought it happen a few months ago. It is such a tingly experience for me that I thought it would be cool to come back and read some years down the road.

So....many, many, many, many, many years ago when I was like 2 -3 or so we used to live in these apartments. From what the parental units told me there was a man that lived next door that my dad and mom were friends with, he was recently divorced and had a little girl right around my age. Naturally my parents move and did not really keep in touch with them.

Lifes moving on... In present time. I dated then married Steven meeting some of his amazing family. One person in particular was Erin. She was Steven's cousins girlfriend at the time. When I first met her I kept asking her what school's she might have gone to ? Where she worked ect... There was just something about her that was familiar, like I have seen her , met her somewhere else. So, after some time it was nothing and we would always talk and hang out at family functions and so on.

She now prepares taxes working for her dad in his office. So, she has been doing ours. My parents were looking for a new accountant because the one they had was a fortune! I referred them to Roitman Tax services because they were reasonably priced and the obvious family. Which means they were someone my parents could trust..

On the day of there appointment they of course arrived and Hank was there, Erin's dad. They met and did the usual handshake , Erin began preparing there taxes and having conversation. My mom stated to Erin that her dad looked so familiar. She told her that he reminder her of a man that use to live next door to them about 22 years ago or so. She said that he had a daughter around my age and we used to play together. My mom mentioned the name of the apartments and Erin asked if they had ever lived there. Turns out they did. At that point it totally clicked to my mom that Hank was that neighbor and Erin was that little girl that I used to play with when I was like 2 years old!!! It was really neat for my parents because they felt the same thing , like they knew him from somewhere! Now, all these years that Erin and I have felt like we have always known each other and wondered why we were such familiar souls to one another ... we find out that we used to be play buddies when we were way little. and 22 -23 years later we are now cousins by marriage! How flippin neat is that?

I think it is amazing !! It is funny how small a world it is and that we always had a funny but wonderful vibe about each other. It was totally neat. To think had I of never met, dated and married Steven we would have most likely never been brought together!