[ WP ] `` Forrest Gump '' me into history to explain my `` long-lost-cousin '' status at a wedding

It was 1994, when I was 6 years old. I remember that, because that was the day when New Jersey Nets, who are now in Brooklyn, picked Yinka Dare as their 1st draft pick. And oh my god, what a waste of a pick that was. 
 
 Anyway, I was 6, the sky was blue, yadi yadi yada. I do n't know. I was 6. All I remember is that they picked Yinka Dare. Christ, why did they pick Yinka Dare. 
 
 Ok, anyway, on that very same day, after dinner out with my mum, I was walking past a fortune teller when it happened. 
 Something magical? No. The TV behind the fortune teller was showing Nets pick Yinka Dare. That useless... grrr. 
 Anyway, yes, I was walking past a fortune teller, watching Nets RUIN their pick, when the fortune teller looked at me through his window. 
 
 Of course, being a child, I tugged my mum's hand to go into the fortune teller's store. No, not to get my fortune read. I wanted to watch the TV and see the draft. 
 I do n't know why she did, normally she would never have, but that day, mum succumbed to my begging and went in there with me. 
 
 Once we were inside, mum was talking to the fortune teller, and I was half listening, half watching TV, he read her palm, he read my palm, he said stuff to her I do n't remember, I kept watching TV and time just went by. 
 
 Later, when it was all done and it was time to go, the fortune teller looked at me and said this. Do n't know how I still remember it, but I guess it left a mark in my brain. 
 
 He said `` Young girl, your fate will be wander the lands and never settle. To never settle and to never make a home. You wo n't begin to make a home, not until you destroy the beginnings of a home of another. Your kin, by fate or blood, you must destroy their home in order to find yours.'' 
 
 Well... so I've been travelling a lot, not really settling anywhere or meeting with family or such. 
 
 And now, here I am. To destroy this wedding. 
 
 Nice to meet you!
