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Rhona MacLeod

A Chance Encounter

Rhona MacLeod

1999

September 25th 1999. Through a slight heat haze, the Garden of the Gods lay below me. A phenomenon of red sandstone towers and pinnacles. The stunning backdrop for the wedding of Nancy Gonsalves and Bill Baum; two people I had never met.

I found myself at this, most beautiful of weddings in Colorado Springs, USA, because of one of my best friends, Sharon Newcomer. We had been team-mates on the track team at the University of Wyoming some 15 years before. She was invited to a friends wedding - one of the tight-knit bunch of friends who worked at the United States Olympic Committee. I was her date for the wedding! ... (continues)

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