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Stranger Than Wal-Mart

"Some 138 million Americans shop at Wal-Mart each week, making it perhaps the single most unifying cultural force in the country."
Chris Anderson, The Long Tail

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Roma P | Interesting Fact

This may not seem like a common "interesting fact" about me since it's about my parents, but it's a cute, unusual little story of how they met and after all, they are the reason I'm here today. Unlike most Utah couples they weren't high school or even college sweethearts. How they met is one of the sweetest love stories I've ever heard. My mom was born and raised in India and my dad (who actually passed away when I was ten) was born and raised in Australia. My mom moved to England to finish up her college education, while my dad was also living in Europe, traveling and playing around. My mom loved the snow and skiing so she moved to Scotland, where my dad also happened to be at the time. She got a small waitressing job at a restaurant on top of one of the mountains, which coincidentally was the same mountain my dad was working on as ski patrol. During a ferocious snow storm the mountain was evacuated, and ski patrol was left to help all employees or other random people down the hill. My dad ended up finding and helping my mom and the rest is history. I just think it's so cute how two people of completely different backgrounds met in a setting that was foreign to both of them and ended up married, living in California, and now even stranger, Southern Utah.

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