While in North Carolina a couple of weeks ago, our car’s alternator went out forcing us to pull over which happened to be at the entrance to Western Carolina University. It was a Friday evening, on a holiday weekend, in a small town. Quite a comedy of events began to occur, however, I’ll spare you the details. What’s important is that I have come to realize that there are no coincidences. We were meant to be at that place, at that time, to encounter Robbie.
Robbie is a police officer for WCU. He was on patrol that night and he came to offer us assistance. We informed him a tow truck would arrive within the hour, but he chose to stay with us until they arrived. In the course of our conversation, he complimented our 2005 Ford Mustang. We told him it had been an 18th birthday gift to our son, Jacob, who had passed away at Duke Children’s Hospital in Durham, NC. Robbie shared with us that he could relate…his best friend, at the same age as Jacob (20), had also undergone a bone marrow transplant at Duke. Happily, his friend survived and is doing well. We told Robbie about the website created in Jacob’s memory to carry on his mission.
After the tow truck had rescued us, Robbie sent us the following email. We felt his message was important to share with you ~
Dear Sir,
I was looking over the website from my patrol car since it’s a rather slow night in Cullowhee and I just realized that I never got your name. I also wanted to leave you a quick note and say that I think the mission of this website is great and I wish more people would “Do what’s right” when it comes to choices in life. It would probably eliminate the need for my profession but I am ok with that since it means I wouldn’t have to worry about the world that my 1yo daugher would be growing up in. I also wanted to check and make sure you both made it back to Cashiers without any problems.
Officer RC
WCU Police Department
