How Long Is Now? by Tim Freke

Author:Tim Freke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2009-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

MEANING

AND MAGIC

* * *

Debbie and I have invited some new friends over for a meal. The conversation has inevitably come around to the “How did you two meet?” question. It’s a great story, so I don’t mind telling it. . . .

Debbie had been left while pregnant by the boyfriend she’d been with since she was 16. Luckily, some friends of mine, Sean and Angie, invited her into their home, where she gave birth to Beau. This was just down the road from where I was living, in the manor house by the church near Glastonbury. Sean and I were making music together at the time, so he would visit me in the studio and talk about this beautiful woman and her newborn baby who were staying with him. But Debbie and I didn’t meet then, because she ended up returning to her birthplace, miles away in Hemel Hempstead.

A short time after this, the girlfriend I was with left me for another shaven-headed musician named Tim . . . only he was a lot more successful! The breakup was a painful reminder of the end of my marriage some years earlier. I was feeling grim, and Sean offered to cheer me up with a ticket to the World of Music and Dance festival.

I went to the festival, but it didn’t cheer me up. I decided to leave, and on my way out I ran into Sean, who was going to meet Debbie and Beau, whom he’d also invited along. We reached the gate just as Debbie arrived, and when I saw this stunningly attractive woman, I instantly decided that I’d stay after all!

I offered to buy her a drink while she looked for a place to change Beau’s diaper. And then I heard a familiar voice call my name. I looked around and there, among the thousands of festivalgoers, was my ex-wife, Caroline, whom I hadn’t seen for years since our divorce. This was a shock, but it felt strangely perfect, because life had become dreamlike ever since I had laid eyes on Debbie and Beau.

I had the feeling that I should not ignore this extraordinary coincidence, so I decided to take some time with Caroline. She apologized for dragging me away from the pretty woman, but joked that she had perhaps saved me from another disastrous marriage. We talked together for an hour or so, and it was an intensely healing conversation in which we both felt forgiving and forgiven.

I returned to Sean and the party of people he had invited to the festival, feeling cleansed of the hurts of my past and much more positive. It soon became apparent that Sean had invited Debbie along because he wanted to set her up with a friend of his whom he’d also invited. But Debbie was now surrounded by a whole group of interested guys . . . and I was one of them.

In the short time we were chatting together, I realized that I was uncontrollably falling in love with this elegant woman’s natural beauty and unaffected humility.

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