4 \4 l% {; y$ H2 L 令戴夫和米歇尔两人都没想到的是，他们见面后竟然一见钟情，迅速坠入爱河。2005年圣诞节那天，戴夫和米歇尔正式举行了订婚仪式。 & \( q( J/ i$ G' D$ w / ?5 N9 f4 C* d9 }" v B# _ 3周前，在戴夫和米歇尔相识5年后，他们终于举行了隆重的婚礼，共有150名宾客参加了婚礼，向这对通过“最离奇的方式”相识相恋的新婚夫妇进行了庆祝。 + @3 \ J% Z- [5 A! b, r# s L/ n/ l'I dreamt up a phone number and found my bride to be'* h! ^ a' O4 H0 i6 B: g% F1 d' z% n
2 o+ L) n( U' ~$ y4 cWaking up one morning five years ago, David Brown found a mystery mobile phone number running through his mind.' b8 S: E, E( A. P% ]3 {
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! ? F' ?0 v8 v8 |( a3 M% nIt turned out to belong to Michelle Kitson, at the time a 17-year-old student living with her parents more than 60 miles away. + V4 A W# Q' D+ k e7 G9 \3 q5 Q9 pEven the most die-hard romantic would have forgiven her for ignoring a message from a strange man she had never met or heard of before. + Q7 k8 q# y2 l2 r k J7 l6 L
4 j3 s5 A( e2 q& h0 K! F/ ~: GBut she decided to respond and after a string of text messages, a phone call and a letter the couple met and fell in love. 2 C, Y9 v* [' j" p% G5 P4 V 4 `; b( N0 k0 m% ~* b+ SNow they have just returned from their honeymoon in Goa, southern India - and still can't believe their luck. & l1 ^/ r1 @; o ' u5 W- J! D7 E& l"She really is the girl of my dreams," said Mr Brown, now 24, from Harefield, North-West London. 1 e( {( J" M6 K" o: F: f
. T" y; P4 C2 a$ K2 ]Recalling how they met, he said: "I went out for a quiet night with some mates and ended up having a few to drink. When I woke up this number just kept running through my head." 1 E( R! D$ N6 n/ c: p8 ?& e0 g. i$ ~! J \
Thinking that perhaps someone had given him the number in the pub, Mr Brown decided to send a text message asking: "Did I meet you last night?" 5 }8 s3 \2 _1 H6 d) W2 M2 Q2 U8 y6 v# M' b& I/ e W4 [- v0 V
By coincidence Michelle was only a few miles away, in a car with her parents travelling through Watford, when she noticed the message. 6 b! c" p$ x7 ?+ E( \
* |2 T! f9 s8 f4 P/ ^2 J, B0 qAfter she responded: "Who are you and where are you from?" it became obvious that there was no connection between the two. / p/ d1 t" ?" b8 Q; j( h7 M ; _, ]* t& D t3 f5 RThey continued to chat by text message, however, and days later she plucked up the nerve to make a phone call. Mr Brown sent her a letter containing his photograph and she agreed to meet so he travelled to her home city of Cambridge. " w7 l1 r2 K' @/ ~
# s& {* Y& q! @6 u" c$ ^Arriving early he telephoned the number again, to see a young woman answering the phone on the other side of the road. "It was love at first sight for me - I loved everything about her," said Mr Brown, who moved to Cambridge to be with Miss Kitson. 8 B& S# S/ E2 I
& k. T1 R* e# h" w" W* _"I've no idea how I ended up with her number in my head - it's only a few digits different from mine." T- x7 y8 W f0 r1 n9 c : n3 R- |, l( ^- RHis bride said she had found the initial encounter "spooky" but she was captivated from the start. - Z5 s5 E+ k% E7 C: b/ J0 J" S
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"It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked. My mum and dad kept saying, 'But he could be an axe murderer', but I knew there was something special about it. I hadn't had a boyfriend before. Those first text messages were a real adrenaline rush. ( F+ V# P0 ]% p) d5 i, H
3 G4 j* Y. P, w- [, K" s"I believe that things happen for a reason. There is no way someone could have said my number in the pub, but he had that number in his head. 1 H% s0 G, J( A( F* h2 @& |" s* n y" b9 ~# j p) O6 f; `
"I know some people will find it hard to believe, but we know the truth." ! d6 f) I& h: m; J2 u9 \
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As for the wedding day, the bride - who stands 5ft 4in to her husband's 6ft 7in - said: "It was fantastic, we couldn't have wished for a better day. . Z/ }# t/ A. s g% O6 |: Y3 z, x; z! e: S7 I
"The weather had been awful, but when we went to the church it was beautiful sunshine." 2 d- _4 G5 S6 H
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Professor Heinz Wolff, emeritus professor of Brunel University, said: "Whatever else it is a charming story but I would be against a supernatural explanation. It is likely the number of this girl was mentioned in the pub and somehow this young man overheard it, even without realising, and his subconscious remembered it." : Y* \3 _* L A/ v8 a8 y0 f) C, h/ C; T# o8 T j* V! ~
He said the probability of a "random" phone number leading to a suitable woman of the right age was actually quite high. ( w+ M; I8 Q9 M( t: b+ m3 K8 a, o! w9 d; `1 T: t) e! h; t
"Say for argument's sake that every 100 phone numbers lead to five girls, the probability of the event they describe is not so remote as you might think. A few thousand to one would be my guess. 3 z/ T! K/ m8 B/ I- ~9 P
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"The sheer romantic background would have increased the chance of some relationship being formed, which would have increased the probability somewhat."
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