Finding the One By Chance

Meeting Maggie

By Franz Lidz
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the February 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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A bus route, a pickup line, a phone number: Franz Lidz thought he was simply asking a girl out on a date. Instead he found the love of his life.

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