| This is a true story of a twin soul couple meeting under | | | | that fate had brought them together, it was not until a |
| magical circumstances in a venue near London, UK. | | | | few years later that they received the most magic |
| The night before she met her future husband, a single | | | | proof thereof. |
| mother was directed to an astrology website by a | | | | She had been studying Energy Medicine and had |
| random e-mail. Her horoscope suggested that the next | | | | connected deeply with an orange lily during a lecture |
| day would be a good day to meet "someone special". | | | | on Flower Essences. Since then orange lilies had been |
| She went to college as usual and on her return found | | | | her favorite flowers. She even began to dress in |
| a message on her answer-phone. It was an invitation | | | | orange and friends referred to her as Orangelily. |
| to join a group of people at a pub she had never been | | | | As she had always loved his beautiful elegant hands, |
| to before. She decided to go. | | | | she chose a painting of his hand for the cover of her |
| Quite late a refined looking man entered the venue | | | | book. He had shared with her that all through his life |
| and came straight to her table. He had also been | | | | people had been attracted to his hands in the |
| invited at very short notice by a friend and never been | | | | strangest ways, and that he had joked before that |
| to the pub before. Although she did not know him, an | | | | one day he would become a "Hand Model", which had |
| intuition told her that he was coming from New York. | | | | now become true. |
| She smiled in recognition when he mentioned that he | | | | Later one day she was driving past the pub where |
| had been on a meaningful trip to New York. When it | | | | they had met years before, and never been since. |
| was closing time he looked at her and said: "You | | | | She had no memory of its name. |
| speak my language". | | | | When she noticed the sign above the door she got |
| He called her the next day. They became intimate | | | | goose bumps all over. |
| friends and lovers and the depth of their love inspired | | | | The name of the pub was: The Hand and Flower |
| her to write a novel. Although they had always felt | | | | They later held their wedding reception there! |