Do friendships come to us by coincidence? Are we people who just happen to be in the right place and time, stumbling through what we do or don’t have in common, tripping into friendship like lovers fall into love?Or is it fate, almost as if our souls are so closely meshed, as if by design, by some divine intervention we are led to the exact moment in time that will impact us so profoundly that our lives will literally be changed forever, for the better? Ursula Lawson came into my life in exactly that way.

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