现年24岁的戴夫·布朗是英国米德尔塞克斯郡海尔菲尔德市人，5年前的一天晚上，戴夫和朋友们外出消夜，当他喝醉酒回家后，立即倒头就睡，并在入睡后做了一个梦。当第二天早晨戴夫醒来后，他已经忘掉了整个梦的内容，但他仍然清楚地记得梦中的一个手机号码。戴夫对记者说：“那是个手机号码———07903 142365，这个陌生的手机号码在脑海中越来越清晰。我当时想，这会不会是我昨天晚上新认识的某个朋友的电话号码？所以我向这个手机发出了一条短信：‘嗨，我们昨天晚上见过吗？’”; V: A8 g2 h6 P# f6 @) c
- I# A M+ P0 v ^1 g 事实上，这个手机号码的主人米歇尔·基特森，她是一名现年22岁的英国女孩，和父母一起生活在距戴夫家有一小时车程的英国剑桥市，她此前和戴夫压根从未见过面。当她接到戴夫发来的手机短信后，立即向他回了一个电话。米歇尔回忆说：“没想到我们在电话中竟一下聊了很长时间。” $ H+ J3 e( C5 ~. f
1 h# f+ e3 y3 K. n. l 令戴夫和米歇尔两人都没想到的是，他们见面后竟然一见钟情，迅速坠入爱河。2005年圣诞节那天，戴夫和米歇尔正式举行了订婚仪式。 1 M, Q5 r, Z: @ j# P, q; y; u
, q1 D9 ?! R1 z+ ]* K/ \7 L 3周前，在戴夫和米歇尔相识5年后，他们终于举行了隆重的婚礼，共有150名宾客参加了婚礼，向这对通过“最离奇的方式”相识相恋的新婚夫妇进行了庆祝。: i& n- [9 [2 k# f6 e: t' f
'I dreamt up a phone number and found my bride to be' " J' ]/ ]2 c7 u. M8 Q3 U/ o+ S6 O' T% t2 A7 i
Waking up one morning five years ago, David Brown found a mystery mobile phone number running through his mind.# L* y! ? j5 z8 w. v* n0 P, I
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When it refused to go away, he decided to call it. % B% V$ H1 C9 m t# D; S
. S6 z) [5 y1 jIt turned out to belong to Michelle Kitson, at the time a 17-year-old student living with her parents more than 60 miles away. C" P# D# g! M* z& u; ~3 b0 @8 U K x9 V
Even the most die-hard romantic would have forgiven her for ignoring a message from a strange man she had never met or heard of before. 3 ^ h) N& J4 U% o" w& ?6 O- \& J7 [6 M6 Q5 p" b
But she decided to respond and after a string of text messages, a phone call and a letter the couple met and fell in love. 6 b) k. O @$ W) R. }* s; H* T U
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Now they have just returned from their honeymoon in Goa, southern India - and still can't believe their luck. 5 f! @! Z; c5 t; M h* g- N4 g. N3 L) j Y7 d
"She really is the girl of my dreams," said Mr Brown, now 24, from Harefield, North-West London. . Z1 W# l+ N1 w F+ |5 i4 M
) V5 z8 K B- n2 v1 Y, x% FRecalling how they met, he said: "I went out for a quiet night with some mates and ended up having a few to drink. When I woke up this number just kept running through my head." 2 H7 b1 s5 \+ J8 o) o6 b1 L2 l) ]' Q9 f+ k+ R3 j" @ D `0 F% P
Thinking that perhaps someone had given him the number in the pub, Mr Brown decided to send a text message asking: "Did I meet you last night?" ) Q, E1 s' X1 m) S# v/ i" [
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By coincidence Michelle was only a few miles away, in a car with her parents travelling through Watford, when she noticed the message. : a& Q: Q7 X: [& L0 z; G' D; \, J
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1 S" M' Z0 b6 n$ T! A2 C, M5 kThey continued to chat by text message, however, and days later she plucked up the nerve to make a phone call. Mr Brown sent her a letter containing his photograph and she agreed to meet so he travelled to her home city of Cambridge. 5 @8 l4 f) u& ]8 O* A2 s" Z: \
Arriving early he telephoned the number again, to see a young woman answering the phone on the other side of the road. "It was love at first sight for me - I loved everything about her," said Mr Brown, who moved to Cambridge to be with Miss Kitson. 7 H* m9 {$ z& [
( ]3 F# o6 {* ^6 }4 P8 y/ l"I've no idea how I ended up with her number in my head - it's only a few digits different from mine." ' s6 V: M) d1 h- ]! K
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His bride said she had found the initial encounter "spooky" but she was captivated from the start. 8 x: M, {/ X. {" G$ p2 S/ f, ?, |4 I: C
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"It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked. My mum and dad kept saying, 'But he could be an axe murderer', but I knew there was something special about it. I hadn't had a boyfriend before. Those first text messages were a real adrenaline rush. : k7 {" [0 O0 R; w1 i
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"I believe that things happen for a reason. There is no way someone could have said my number in the pub, but he had that number in his head. ; s, Q9 u! S7 Z3 A7 V8 d
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"I know some people will find it hard to believe, but we know the truth." % v8 x5 W! M( ?5 t; q! J8 m! V7 o6 C4 k* g" c. u U( D
As for the wedding day, the bride - who stands 5ft 4in to her husband's 6ft 7in - said: "It was fantastic, we couldn't have wished for a better day. % ]% x2 h1 m5 b2 k! M; l* f+ D' p: R
"The weather had been awful, but when we went to the church it was beautiful sunshine." ; T+ m9 v. b$ F; T \, N2 j7 `) Y' e- ]% u- o. P' K! E( f
Professor Heinz Wolff, emeritus professor of Brunel University, said: "Whatever else it is a charming story but I would be against a supernatural explanation. It is likely the number of this girl was mentioned in the pub and somehow this young man overheard it, even without realising, and his subconscious remembered it." ) q0 Q% Y: G1 Y! q' m7 N$ B% H7 a* l3 U6 {" j1 M
He said the probability of a "random" phone number leading to a suitable woman of the right age was actually quite high. " J. P/ A" d% O) N2 Q2 F1 _
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"Say for argument's sake that every 100 phone numbers lead to five girls, the probability of the event they describe is not so remote as you might think. A few thousand to one would be my guess. 1 H2 `! c2 L$ P5 } 6 z" e3 U: v9 ~- Q* I"The sheer romantic background would have increased the chance of some relationship being formed, which would have increased the probability somewhat."
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