We can both do with another drink. I want Ginger Ale and Maddie drinks Coca Cola.”“Back in a couple of minutes.”Harold made his way to the bar, ...ut his progress was impeded by a couple of women who were slightly older than he was. From his actions, it looked like he was putting them off. As he continued on to the bar, Maddie said, “See what I mean?”Greta responded, “Yeah, they are interested in him. Aren’t they?”“Yes, they are. If he wasn’t coming back to us, he might have joined them.”“Oh God,. They were prosperous farmers and he a mere labourer. Princess Sara sympathised with their desire not to let their sister do anything so foolish as marry beneath her, but deplored their treatment of the poor boy - for he was scarcely out of his teens.She looked down at his feet and saw the same terrible lacerations that had marred hers before now. He could scarcely stagger another yard, such was the extent of his exhaustion. He had clearly been beaten terribly very recently and looked much more. Most of us don't. Oh, we think about it fleetingly, as it touches our lives now and then, but we don't actually give it the honor it is due. Some people think there isn't any such thing as coincidence, and that everything is preordained. They would call coincidence fate. I'm not one of those people.Coincidence is neither good nor bad, in and of itself. The results can be either, of course, but you can't blame that on coincidence.Take, for example the coincidence of a weak bolt being installed. It must have taken years to gather the equipment and supplies to conduct this attack. Semi-trucks with trailers containing home-made diesel and fertilizer bombs were the main weapons used. They did not need to gain access to the targets just get close enough for the explosives to damage or destroy the targets. This was in conjunction with VBIEDs and home-made mortar and rocket attacks on military bases across the country. Nobody knows how homeland security, FBI, and law enforcement could not.