Madame DeFarge's License Plate
Story from Abejo (Nov 15, 2017):
To All: What an amazing experience I had about an hour ago. I was
taking a pile of letters to the post office to mail and I walked by a
restaurant on the way. A car was pulling into a stall at the
restaurant. The license plate said MME DFRG. The driver was the last
to get out, so I asked him what the license plate meant. He said a
character from an old novel, Madame DeFarge.
I stopped for a few
moments and then decided to follow them into the restaurant. I had to
know! I went up to their table (a man and two ladies) and asked if any
of them worked the crossword each day and was on a crossword blog. One
lady said that she did. I told her that I saw her every day on the blog
because I was on the same one. She asked me my blog name and I said
Abejo. She knew me at once. She is Madame DeFarge on the same blog.
We had a nice talk for 10 minutes or so. They live many miles away, but
were visiting their friend in Bartlett, where I live. I got her real
name and she now has mine. Her husband took our picture with my cell
phone. I will send it to CC. What a small world!
