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I live in a small city. I’ve lived here with my parents for four years now. I attended school for a few months but was very truant. Three months into the school year, I was dropped from the system. I didn’t attend frequently enough to make any friends, so I had no friends in my little city. That is until last Friday.<\/p>\n

I was walking home from summer school, which I attend two cities away when I was approached by a girl. We talked, and she was nice. I had made my first friend in my little city. We came to a fork in the road, and we split. When I was nearly home, I realized I forgot to ask her for her phone number, last name, or e-mail. As I said, I had lived in my city for about four years, and I only just encountered her. I walk down the same roads on a daily basis but that was the first time I encountered her. I felt my friendship had ended as fast as it had come.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, I picked up The Secret<\/a> from the local library after having been intrigued by my mom’s Spanish version. I began to read it and then I attempted to live by it. One of my first requests was to encounter that girl again. Yesterday and today, I asked, believed, and received. And then it happened!<\/p>\n

I went jogging to the grocery store because of an errand I was on, and I could no longer jog back home, so I had to walk. A ten minute jog was now going to take me 25 minutes to walk. I was irritated at first, but I remembered The Secret, and it put a smile on my face. As I got closer to home, I approached the fork where my friend and I had split four days earlier. A few days earlier, I had thought that since it took me four years to encounter her the first time, I would have to wait another four years for it to happen again. However, I had been using The Secret for the past two days, so I smiled and continued my walk home.<\/p>\n

A couple minutes from my home, I saw someone coming up the hill. I didn’t recognize them at first. Then, I saw them throwing their arms in the air. It was my friend whom I had wished to meet again. This time I got her phone number and last name.<\/p>\n

The Secret gave me an encounter that I thought wouldn’t happen for another four years. There were so many variables that could have prevented this encounter, but the Universe changed things so that I would encounter her. If I had accepted the offer from my mom to get a ride to the store, I wouldn’t have encountered my friend. If, for certain reasons, I was able to jog back home, I would have arrived home before I ran into her. All these variables and more were taken care of for me by The Secret.<\/p>\n

I’ve only known about this force for two days, and already, I’ve experienced a miracle. I’ve tried religion and different beliefs, but none of them have ever felt right. This felt right from the moment I read the first page. I have now found my way of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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