{"id":1774,"date":"2019-03-29T23:44:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilmawestenberg.nl\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2020-12-27T00:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T23:43:26","slug":"a-meeting-that-was-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilmawestenberg.nl\/a-meeting-that-was-meant-to-be\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"A meeting that was meant to be: Mateus (23) from Sao Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi all,<\/p>\n

I wanted to share something crazy that happened this week. The last two weeks Koen and I have been traveling through Brazil to visit Luisa (4) and her family and meet James Gabriel (11) and his mom. On our last day, Koen and I were driving back to Sao Paulo to meet Luisa one more time before flying back to Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

All of a sudden I received a message on Instagram from Mateus. ‘Hi Wilma! My name is Mateus, I’m from Brazil and I have FIL too. I read your blog and I’m happy to know that I’m not the only one’. I couldn’t believe what I just read. The fact that I found someone else with FIL – who is the same age as I am – is already impressive. But guess what.. he lives in Sau Paulo!<\/p>\n

I immediately contacted Esther (Luisa’s mom) to share this amazing news. We were all very excited and decided to meet at a mall close to his work.<\/p>\n

Meant to be<\/h2>\n

I received his first message at 1pm… and 5pm we were sitting together at Mc Donald’s, just before I had to leave to the airport! I still can’t believe it and I’m so amazed by this perfect timing.. it’s definitely meant to be! Mateus joined our FIL-group on Facebook and is part of our special FILamily now \u2764<\/p>\n

\"Wilma

Talking about our lives with FIL<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Wilma

Mateus, Wilma & Luisa<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Meeting

All of us together (and Koen, behind the camera ghehe)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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