What a Difference...17 years make

So get this.  I woke up yesterday with the intension of looking for an old photo album I was suppose to take to work. I was going to show someone photos of a friend we had in common. When I finally found it, and began looking through it, I found a photograph that was taken 17 years ago of Raul Di Blasio and I. 

Raul Di Blasio and I - Cafe Abbracci
April 1994

For those who don't know who Raul Di Blasio is, check out this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJZafbsaWc . Raul Di Blasio is in town for a concert he's having this weekend in Miami (I'm going on Sunday).  In any event, I get to work, go upstairs to show my friend the picture and out of the blue he says "do you know that Raul is downtairs right now?  Come on, let's go down there and show him the pictures."  Can you believe what a coincidence that is? I had absolutely no idea or reason to think he'd be at our office yesterday.  I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around it.  Here's a picture I haven't looked at in over a decade of someone I randomly met years ago, and the very day I look at it, he suddenly appears....17 years later....Wow. What are the chances of that happening twice??  I should play the lottery this weekend. 

My friend drags me downstairs and show his PR person the pictures.  She can't believe it either.  She grabs me by the hand and takes me over to where he's sitting and shows them to him.  Of course he couldn't remember who or when or where they were taken; never thought he would.  He smiled, stood up, gave me a big hug and insisted we take another picture together because as he put it, we look so much better today.  Here it is...How are we doing for 17 years later?  

Raul Di Blasio and I, Mega TV Miami
February 11, 2011