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September 19, 2021
Lake Clear, NY

Karen & James

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James Gann

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Karen Kan

Lake Clear

NY

September 19

2021

How We Met

We consciously manifested each other.

Karen was very sad when her skating partner left town and in desperation, she took a course in "manifesting" with Laura Day. The angels helped her ask for who she wanted and in the process, she wrote her wish list. James was alone and wanted someone to truly love him as he is. While walking to the mailbox one day, he wished for his ideal partner. One fateful day, in Toro Park, Salinas, California, Karen was taking a walk with her friend right before going on a retreat to study with Laura Day again (at Esalen Insitute). She heard drumming and her friend exclaimed that she had been looking for a drum teacher. They made their way to a small group of people who were African drumming. James was the teacher. Karen thought, "what a good-looking guy", and after class she complimented James on his great smile. Her friend quipped "and you have great eyes too!" Karen thought for sure someone so good-looking would be conceited, but the look on James' face was priceless. He was dumbfounded. I guess no one had ever paid him a compliment like that! They exchanged phone numbers, but Karen didn't really take James seriously because he lived 3000 miles away, didn't ice skate, and was six years younger than she was. In fact, she told him to look for someone else because she was "too old" for him and that there were plenty of cute Asian babes in California. But that didn't deter James. Over several months, Karen and James corresponded by phone. Then James spent his single week of vacation with Karen in the Adirondacks. Karen put a pair of her ex-husband's ice skates on him and James took to the ice like a fish to water! The first time James saw a triple toe-loop, performed by the Italian figure skating champion, he exclaimed "That's tight! I wanna do that!" Karen wasn't so sure he could skate well enough to eventually skate pairs. Undeterred, James returned home with skates in hand and began training every weekend in San Jose (1 hour away). The rest is gold medal history!

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