backwords continued
She said it must be a sign that I needed
to find Jen. I searched the phone book
and the Internet, but turned up nothing.

PIANO TOTS MUSIC CLASS
I thought about looking up her dad—
Group piano and music instruction for
who may or may not have remembered
preschoolers. 4-class summer camp
me—or going to the Allegheny County
begins in June. 14-week fall session
begins in September. 412-654-9677
Courthouse to search marriage and prop-
or www.pianotots.com
erty records. Then my mom suggested
classmates.com. PRIVATE TUTORING
In-home tutoring available by PA-certified
I didn’t know much about the site
teacher. K-12 math, reading, science,
but I logged on and found that Jen was
English, SAT, PSSA. Call Angela at
registered. I grudgingly paid $15 to join,
412-221-3505. sent her an e-mail and waited. Little did I
FRENCH HORN TEACHER
know that at the same time I was search-
Private lessons, beginners to advanced.

ing for her, she was searching for me.

Nick Kehayas. Juilliard 412-561-7964
Wanting to reconnect, she had signed up
on classmates.com for the sole purpose of
finding me. She had been waiting a few
months and was about to give up when
she had a dream about me. The next day
she logged on to the site and found my
e-mail. She called me that day and we spent
a good hour on the phone laughing and
catching up. When I told her of how I
found her picture in my wall and that’s
550 Sleepy Hollow Road • Mt. Lebanon, PA 15228
what led me to find her, she was speech-
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PRESCHOOL (AGES 2-6) THRU 6TH GRADE
years since our Seton-LaSalle days, it was
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as if no time had passed, and we picked
up right where we left off.

Unlike some other old classmates you
run into at the grocery store, make polite
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and I may be a bit older and have much
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we are still the same people and what
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What if we hadn’t bought this house?
WAGS & WHISKERS OF MT. LEBANON What if I didn’t decide on a whim to tear
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down that wall? What if whoever put
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that sheet of newspaper in the wall had
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grabbed the sports section instead?
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Jen and I were obviously meant to
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Bonded/Insured. 412-343-3433.

There is no other explanation. While it
would have been nice to find a stack of
$50s or a priceless Matisse painting, that
one sheet of newspaper has proved more
valuable than any amount of money. So
next time your belief in fate begins to
wane, grab a sledgehammer and a trash-
can, and see what’s in your walls.

for pets
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