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A STRANGE COINCIDENCE

A lot of people do not believe in coincidence - they choose to believe instead that everything happens for a reason; was a matter of fate and was meant to send a message of some type. I, too believe that. In most cases. However, I fail to see how this particular coincidence could have anything to do with fate or have a message in its occurrence. It was just a coincidence plain and simple.

When I was fifteen years of age, I met Rodney through my brother's girlfriend. I was not allowed to go out on single dates yet but I was allowed to double date with my brother who was two years older than me. Rodney was the cutest, coolest, guy I had ever met. He was a year or two older which added to his charm. He was the James Dean-Marlon Brando type, duck hairdo, leather jacket and all. A real Fonzie type character. Not only that, but he was the proverbial bad boy that young girls can't help but fall for in spite of all their common sense and good girl upbringing. He was quite the charmer although he never pressed me to do anything beyond kissing. My brother told me that I was never to go any place with Rodney unless he and his girlfriend were with me. He told me that he had heard that Rodney had stolen some tires and was not the proper kind of boy for me to be with. I guess my brother figured as long as he was with me, I could date Rodney and get him out of my system. Cautioning me against being alone with Rodney was a moot point since Rodney had no vehicle of his own and Mama wouldn't allow it anyway. I was never one to go against Mama's rules. One night, on a double date with my brother and his girlfriend, Rodney asked me to go steady with him. Man, I was so far off the ground after that, you couldn't touch me. ME..little ole ME asked to be the steady girlfriend of someone who looked like Rodney. The date of that night was August 8. Double eights.

There was a place called Morgan's Bridge on the outskirts of town that Rodney liked to go to and a lot of the kids (couples) went there to have parties but I was never allowed to go, not even with my brother, who seldom went there himself. He and my mother were convinced that only ill could come from going there. Some of the kids who hung out there were older and got into trouble. Rodney and I didn't go together for long as it was difficult for us to get together; him with no car, me unable to date without my brother, and us living on opposite sides of town. He had quit school and I was still in

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