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In 2007, Rachel Salazar lived in Thailand and Ruben Salazar in Texas. Despite being so far away, their email addresses were very close.
Here, Rachel and Ruben remember how a typo brought them together.
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In 2007, Rachel Salazar lived in Thailand and Ruben Salazar in Texas. Despite being so far away, their email addresses were very close.
Here, Rachel and Ruben remember how a typo brought them together.
Broadcast History
NPR Morning Edition 5/13/11
Transcript
Ruben Salazar: I get to work, first thing I do is turn on my email. And I discovered this one that I didn't know who it was from.
Rachel Salazar: My coworker sent you that email by mistake.
Ruben: And I was like, "Here's another R.P. Salazar. Imagine that." And so I forwarded it. I wrote a little message: "Hi, Rachel, it seems as if this message came to me instead of you. I'm in Waco, Texas, USA. Have a great day. PS, how's the weather there in Bangkok?"
Rachel: I replied to you, "Weather in Bangkok is lovely. Gracias, Rachel."
Ruben: So began a chain of emails.
Rachel: The first couple of emails you started describing yourself and that kind of encouraged me to be open about myself too.
Ruben: I was excited that this person is halfway around the world. It's kind of like sending a letter in a bottle. I happened to hover my mouse over your name on one of those emails and a pictur...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:It is a Friday morning which is when we hear from StoryCorps ... the project traveling the country, collecting your stories.
And today we hear about -- a romance tale that started ... with a typo.
Four years ago, RACHEL Salazar was living in Bangkok, Thailand.
RUBEN Salazar lived in Waco, Texas
Their email addresses were nearly identical ....
OUTRO:Rachel Salazar with her husband, Ruben, at StoryCorps in Waco, Texas.
Their conversation will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
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