5 O5 d+ j6 Z4 j7 n 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。 " v% E( t; f6 k - r+ a+ n2 ~' X# e& r/ D 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。1 [: n# D, A5 {8 Q
'I dreamt up a phone number and found my bride to be' ' @# T6 o" f: Y8 y8 P# f . J3 p2 S+ U0 P4 @7 t; S. s9 d1 kWaking up one morning five years ago, David Brown found a mystery mobile phone number running through his mind. / g) ~6 V4 N0 w. Y/ C' b" Y$ I7 m) X' A2 b$ G! z* G8 b8 ^$ c9 d
+ o4 C1 V5 E$ s3 u( tWhen it refused to go away, he decided to call it. 9 L3 H- v: s+ ^8 l- | + |1 ~' X; i" D; |! M9 ^: b9 hIt turned out to belong to Michelle Kitson, at the time a 17-year-old student living with her parents more than 60 miles away. ( L) H% s* J e
- h! u3 i9 q7 ~0 L W2 s+ [* m1 V6 |5 nEven 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. 1 t+ t ^3 A" t, J$ d' } i
6 P5 P0 |. B+ zBut she decided to respond and after a string of text messages, a phone call and a letter the couple met and fell in love. 6 K$ Q7 g! E5 j5 H6 M2 L
1 [: m, K1 W5 k! ONow they have just returned from their honeymoon in Goa, southern India - and still can't believe their luck. [. C6 V1 E: e/ R. K+ j0 M' k; c' `
"She really is the girl of my dreams," said Mr Brown, now 24, from Harefield, North-West London. 7 \- F: F% M0 m$ |. t" g
! h7 \9 x! u) \ E7 g, |: sRecalling 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." 2 u* {7 Y" U, v% ]
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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?" * _$ ]4 s/ X# x$ m; g- R6 L8 @5 H4 R. P' J9 i: W) z5 Q" Z" l# _
By coincidence Michelle was only a few miles away, in a car with her parents travelling through Watford, when she noticed the message. * b4 W" L \" }& N( o, P6 L) }
) _$ @# o9 w: |. V7 KAfter she responded: "Who are you and where are you from?" it became obvious that there was no connection between the two. 6 N( p1 J) c ]1 s8 N n1 U
- d) S- j, @6 t3 p7 t/ K/ cThey 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. . _( O) M, ~) R1 i, I& C
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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. 7 ?+ h7 T7 P6 R+ o, `0 K7 ^, S / p# l3 T7 t/ \9 g% @/ D"I've no idea how I ended up with her number in my head - it's only a few digits different from mine." . V5 n- h0 l. }9 n* Z8 I5 v # d9 u, ]* @6 iHis bride said she had found the initial encounter "spooky" but she was captivated from the start. ( K) W6 ^) J: e1 v9 r
. G5 f m* f' u( {% o" n4 E' T/ r"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. . Q& T1 O2 b( u: ^6 V# O- U
" O& m+ c0 `, m) c"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. . P# x/ Q" [1 M) ]' f: X# s7 G% |) L5 G' W
"I know some people will find it hard to believe, but we know the truth." @ q( t! F7 {% h( O0 t2 ^
9 h% U1 G+ `( E6 A' TAs 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. 0 ~# I7 K. A2 u0 @- Z. Y7 `' A
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"The weather had been awful, but when we went to the church it was beautiful sunshine." ' L8 k5 M# P( x * c7 g2 f; L; l( Y* ?: L# f" |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." ' _9 \: s8 I6 g0 b0 A3 o % Y _; f0 q# fHe said the probability of a "random" phone number leading to a suitable woman of the right age was actually quite high. " c. t0 b. u+ [* G0 ]2 W0 s. I
* \7 f' z. z6 e4 c"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. 8 M: P( \+ {7 s" K0 Q1 ]
0 z& J2 `3 E5 X1 ^* |* K8 K"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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