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specialBecky, Elena, and I all went to grade school at St Mary's School, LIC, Queens, in the 1960s. I graduated eighth grade from a public school, IS 61 Q. Anyway, on Christmas Eve, after the service at New Life Fellowship, Becky and I decided to go to the service at St. Mary's Church. We got confused about the starting time, and we took a taxi to get there on time. Once there, Becky decided to invite Ken, too. He and Margie had gone to a service in their own church.
So Becky and I got there in time, and Ken and Margie got there later.
Now the church is having its 140th anniversary, and a church worker named Giovanna has been collecting photos of past decades and putting them up in the church. Among the display set in the 1960s, Ken recognized the photo of Elena's third-grade class with Mrs. Greco--and there she was, eight-year-old Elena seated with her class.
"She managed to show up," I said. It was amazing that, in a way, all four of us were there.
When we told Giovanna the story, she said to us, "You were meant to be here tonight."
We said we would come back someday and help her identify the people in those photographs.
