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Chance Meeting on the Champs-Élysées

Friday was a free day in Paris, and sight-seeing was on my agenda. I visited the Louvre in the morning, and I was headed up the Champs-Élysées to see the Arc de Triumphe in the mid-afternoon. Halfway up the avenue, I heard someone say, "Hey, Sean Baird!" What!?!? Who knows me in Paris?? When I turned around, it was "BJ," Bradford Jamieson. And then he yelled, "Hey Corey," and there he was. Wow!

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Within the next five minutes, the entire team was there. What an incredible surprise – and completely chance meeting – it was. It's a long story, but it was such a winding road that brought me to that location at that exact instant in time. If I was 30 seconds earlier or later, chances are that I don't see anyone.

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It was only ten or fifteen minutes, but I loved it!