Los amigos de mis amigos son mis amigos - My friends' friends are my friends

Hace unos años, no recuerdo sin son 4 o 5, una de mis amigas de Miami me dijo: "tengo una amiga que se acaba de mudar a Philadelphia y creo que os caeriais genial". Algunas personas serian reacias a este tipo de encuentros pero a mi me pasa todo lo contrario porque mis mejores y mas queridos amigos los he conocido en las circunstancias menos convencionales. A mi mejor amiga la conoci en un desfile en el que ella participaba y yo cantaba (eso es para otro entrada) y el resto de las modelos estaban completamente locas. Hasta tal punto que hubo una pelea y tuvimos que encerrarnos en un baño para que no nos corriesen a palos por el simple hecho de pasar por alli. Y encerradas en un baño muertas de risa empezamos a hablar y no nos hemos separado (de corazon, porque ya no vivimos en la misma ciudad) desde entonces, hace ya 10 años. Volviendo al tema que me ocupaba, por supuesto que me lance a conocer a la chica que se acababa de mudar a Philadelphia. Charlamos un par de veces por telefono, nos caimos genial y unas semanas despues me invito a su casa. Salimos a comer y despues volvimos a su casa donde nos bebimos 3 botellas de vino entre las dos y entonces si que supe que habia encontrado a una amiga para toda la vida :-) Hoy, que esta persona es parte de mi vida, parte de mis alegrias y mis penas, y que ha sido un apoyo fundamental en momentos complicados de mi vida, me pregunto que habria pasado si mi amiga de Miami no me hubiera comentado nada. Porque gracias a esta persona siento que soy mejor mujer, mejor profesional y mejor amiga. Podria haber escrito esto hace mucho tiempo, pero hoy se me ha ocurrido porque esta fuera del pais y la echo de menos increiblemente. 

Os ha pasado esto alguna vez? Habeis encontrado un amigo de un amigo que se convirtio en uno de vuestros mejores amigos y lo encontrasteis de la manera mas casual?

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A few years ago, can't remember if it was 4 or 5, one of my friends from Miami said: "I have a friend who just moved to Philadelphia and I think that you would love her." Some people would be reluctant to this kind of thing but to me it comes natural because some of my best and dearest friends I have met in the least conventional circumstances. I met my best friend at a fashion show in which she was a model and I was singing (that's for another post) and the rest of the models were completely crazy. So much so that there was a fight and we had to lock ourselves in a bathroom so to avoid getting hit just for being there. Locked in a bathroom and dying with laughter, we started talking and we have not been apart ever since (in our hearts, because we do not live in the same city anymore). That was 10 years ago. Getting back to my subject, of course, I agreed to meet the girl who just moved to Philadelphia. We chatted a few times by phone, we hit it off and a few weeks later she invited me to her house. We went out to lunch and then went back to her house where we drank 3 bottles of wine between the two of us. And then I knew I had found a friend for life :-) This person is part of my life, part of my joys and sorrows, and has been a fundamental support in difficult moments of my life. I wonder what would have happened if my friend in Miami would have never mentioned her. Because thanks to this person I feel that I am a better woman, better professional and better friend. I could have written this  a long time ago, but today it came to my mind because she's out of the country, and I miss her terribly.

Has this happened to you? Did you meet a friend of a friend who became one of your best friends and you found each other in an unconventional way?