i knew target is a magical place.

Ready for the shock of my day?

I was roaming blissfully in Target this afternoon, when I saw someone distinctly familiar ahead of me.  I thought a second.

Wait.

I know her . . . from South Asia!

What!?

It was Tiffany, an American who lived in our city for her husband’s job.  We met each other at church–chasing our toddlers, sweating buckets, in the tiny, upstairs room our church rented on Sunday mornings.

And yet today here we were in bright, air-conditioned Target, in shorts and t’shirts, against a backdrop of racks of bikinis on clearance.  It could not have felt more surreal.

Even weirder is that her family actually now lives in Turkey, but she’s home in Chapin this summer to have a baby (a sweet 4-week-old girl who I got to meet).

What are the chances???

Only at Target.