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By Richard Lykes,
Special to the Rappahannock News
Serendipitous surprises hide, k3like children, along life’s path. Suddenly they spring forth; laughing, dancing and defying all odds. The possibility
of the most exciting reasons for getting out of bed each day, says a poet friend of mine. You just never know.
Introduce the Internet to these possibilities and you have the beginning of a story 1 am about to share.
Interestingly, the concept of “serendipity”—accidentally finding something fortunate when looking for something else entirely different—is also a major component of scientific discoveries and inventions and the source of much scientific and other useful knowledge. For instance, discovery of the principle behind printers was made by a Canon engineer who discovered that putting his hot soldering iron to his pen by accident resulted in the pen ejecting ink a few moments later.
When serendipity jumps out and touches you personally with its magic you feel really special and blessed. People frequently use the Internet these days to search for old friends as well as to find new ones. My story shows how, through chance or destiny, I was accidentally reconnected with a childhood friend via this electronic marvel. It happened like this through a Rappahannock connection.
Perusing the Internet for a place they’d like to visit again one day, my childhood friend found the website for the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection [ RLEP). There she saw the photo gallery with my name and remembered the 8-year-old of such things happening is one
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