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A post card from Ireland - seven years later

I am back in New York City. I am home. Our friends Chip and John have come to visit tonight. They are best friends to Mom and I. The fact that they have actually viewed all 1,300 photos of our Ireland trip puts them in a whole other category of best friends just for enduring all those photos. "Oh, you've got mail...a post card", Chip said as he enters my apartment. He hands it to me and I say, "What are you talking about, Chip?" as I hug him hello. "It's 7p.m. I already picked up my mail". "Well, you forgot this", he tells me. It's a post card that Chip and John saved from a trip John took to Ireland back in 1998. Being funny, they thought they would pretend they were there when we were. Last week. "Oh, wait a second. Where did you get this post card?" I ask as I look at it...and look at it again because I can't believe what I am seeing. "When we were in Ireland. We thought we'd bump into yo