A cute female newcomer climbs up into the boyz treehouse and loudly announces her sad plight -- She's alone! She wants a man! She drinks! -- and the thundering herd of ardent, sincere respondees about brings the house down, 200 strong and counting. Who could have possibly predicted THIS?
People scold, people pontificate, along the way, GASP ! , a food fight breaks out, and Red Dawn is somehow involved!! It's the sheer unpredictability of these forums that keeps me just a comin' on back, time and time again.
After long and careful consideration, several young men decide that, YES ! , they are the solution to Polgara's plight in life. I ask you, gentle reader, who could have forseen this, WHO?
Ahhhhhhh, Sarah, you'll end up OK enough. Or you won't. Tend your own garden, the rest will come. As someone here said, Serendipity will have it's way.
Call it fate, kismet, God, or luck (as the residue of design -- Branch Rickey), the (mostly) right person will come into your life, well, if and when they do. Your job is merely to recognize them when they do. Just remember, life sends us countless unheralded gifts, they just don't always come dressed up in the specific package we expect.