\t\t\t\tI received this email today and I asked Shirley Rickard if I could share her story. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n
\n\nI have been meaning to send you this email about my fantastic, and somewhat eerie, experience from the last Road to California Show.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\nLast year I did not get my first choices, but I’m glad.\u00a0Sitting in my row in the Hands All Around class (my 2nd choice) was my sister’s roommate from college (she was a walk in) and my sister’s bosses wife (her husband was taking my 1st choice that day).\u00a0 My sister, Peggy,\u00a0died of cancer 7\u00a0months before.\u00a0 I over heard the boss, his wife and her roommate talking, realizing that they all knew Peggy.\u00a0 The roommate did not know that Peggy died, so the boss told her.\u00a0 That was when I asked them if they were talking about a woman named Peggy who lived in Ridgecrest and who died of cancer last year;\u00a0She is my sister. Debbie then said that she was her college roommate, and Margaret’s husband said that he was her boss before he recently retired.\u00a0\u00a0It was the most exciting experience I have ever had. I mean, what are the odds of the 3 of use sitting in the same row in a class that was my 2nd choice and one that Debbie added at the very last minute? I found out later that the women sitting in front of me was so moved that she was crying. Debbie and I had lunch that day because she wanted to hear more about Peggy and her life.\u00a0We also have kept in touch since the class.\u00a0My Mom, Dad and older sisters all fondly remember Debbie from those college days and were floored when I told them my story.\u00a0 I feel that Peggy worked hard to get all of us together for that class. Quilting does bring people together! Thank you for being a major part of this fantastic story!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\nSometimes we wonder why things happen the way they do. I was bummed when I did not get my first choice last year…Now I know why I didn’t.\u00a0 I was meant to be in that class, sitting in that seat (I almost sat in front of the class), and Debbie and Margaret were also meant to be there, sitting in their seats.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\nI\u00a0feel that this chance meeting was a gift that needs to be shared.\u00a0 Thank you for helping me do that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\nThis is my 3rd year of attending classes at Road to\u00a0California.\u00a0 You definitely do provide a wonderful haven for women…and men!\u00a0 Thank you!!!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\nI have always felt that The Fabric Patch, the store Mother and I owned for 25 years, and now Road to California were my mission in life to provide a haven for women. \u00a0Many times when things were not going well, I would say a prayer and God would help. \u00a0I love producing Road to California. \u00a0I like to see ladies smiling as they walk around the show and stories such as Sharon’s are the icing on the cake.<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\nGod Bless!!<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\nCarolyn\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n\n<\/span><\/div>\n\n<\/span><\/blockquote>\n\n<\/div>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}