The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal car cancer, or spontaneously collibust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, al least ore of tlieni will probably happen to each of us. l could liave seen it rain frogs. T could have steppcd fo on Mars. I could have been eaten by a ot whale. I corld have married the queen of England or survived months a sea But my miracle was different. My miracle was this out of all ue 1 ouses m all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margu Roth Spiegelman Our sulndivision, Jefferson Park. used to be a navy base. But then the navy didu't Tiee it anymore, so it returncd the land to the citizens of Orlando, Florida, who decided to build a massive subdivision, because that's what Florida does with land. My parents and Margo's parents endcd up moving next door to one another just after the first houses were built. Margo and I were two Before Jefferson Park was a Pleasantville, and before it was a navy base, it belonged to an aclual Jefferstn, this guy Dr. Jet ferson Jeffcrson. Dr. Jefferson Jefferson has a school named after hini in Orlando and also a large charitable foundation, but le fascinating and unlelievable but true thing about Dr. Jefferson