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Javier's shot from the Golden Gate Bridge, originally uploaded by lngwrites.

My Spanish pal Javier took this shot while he was living in the Bay Area last year.

I met Javier on an airport shuttle bus in London when I asked to borrow his cell phone because I was late to meet a friend. The screen shot on his phone? The Golden Gate Bridge. I'd just finished grad school at UC Berkeley, and he was relocating to Ireland from San Francisco. We only chatted for a half hour or so, but we stayed in touch and hung out last month when he and his folks came to New York City over New Year's. And he just won a Fulbright to attend business school in the U.S. next year...you go, Jav! Just goes to show, you never know where you're going to meet a new friend...

// posted by newly @ 2:10 PM