Goodreads asked Ellen Jo Ljung:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Ellen Jo Ljung As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, I met my husband on a Thursday at a mixer dance attended by over 1,000 people. The campus had over 35,000 people and he asked me out for Friday, then said he didn't want to get tied down. Neither did I! Yet we ran into each other at a picnic for new students with over 1,000 people on Saturday night... how likely? Then he asked me out for pizza on Sunday -- fine -- but he ended up standing behind me in line in the bookstore on Monday! What are the odds? He doesn't believe in fate, so I tell him he's my stalker. We defied statistics in continuing to meet, and we are still together 58 years later! How do you explain that?

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