One Day

You meet thousands of people

and none of them really touch you.

And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever.

-Love and Other Drugs

I met my one person May 17, 2005.

I was a flight attendant for a small charter company.

We had a contract with the government to move troops all over the world

I was on reserve that week and got a call for a trip to Frankfurt, Germany.

I did not want to go.
My mom always wanted to be a nurse as a little girl, but life got in the way.

Four girls later, and supporting my dad with his small business 

she decided to go back to school to be a nurse.  

This was the week she was graduating from nursing school.

I fought tooth and nail to get out of the trip.

I asked to switch with someone.

I just plainly said I'm not going.

Then the company said if I don't go, I'll be written up.

Not a good thing at all if I wanted to keep my job.

So I got on an airplane.

I was the inside crew.

He was the outside crew.

He wasn't suppose to be on that trip, someone else called in sick.

I had been in Germany for two nights waiting for the plane to get in.

He traveled from Tacoma, Washington for 20 plus hours and never got off the plane.

I had worked for the company for almost 2 years.

He had been there for over 5 years.

We had never met.

He said he had given up on love.

I had never been in love.

We got off the plane in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

I didn't even feel my feet touch the ground.

My life changed forever.

On an airplane.

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