December 16, 2004

Karen Allen's Wilkes-Barre phone number would often come up on my caller ID, although it was a coworker's fiance calling for my Bob.

Finally, Bob's new found friend, Gary, brings his fiance, Jessica, to meet at our home.

We started talking about her former job working at the First Union Center for the arena catering services.

I told her how I firt met Def Leppard in Wilkes-Barre, 1993.

Then again in Puerto Rico, 1997, when I bought a round of drinks for both Rick A. and Rick S., as well as myself--only Rick A. bought me a drink! I showed her the photographs I had taken with each band member the second night, after the show.

She exclaimed, "I cannot believe you are in a picture with Rick A.! He's my favorite and both of my brothers' favorite! One year my brother, John, posed as Rick A. for Halloween (tucking his arm inside shirt behind him) and told everyone that we were related (our last names are Allen, too)!"

I said, "You could be!"

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