Romeo #21 October 1967
In "The Day I Met Marie," Alex, haunted by a childhood game of cherry stones that foretells her fate, finds herself drawn to a mysterious man she encounters at a post office—just as a fortune-teller’s cryptic warning hinted. The story unfolds with quiet intrigue, as a chance meeting begins to blur the line between prophecy and coincidence. Illustrated with striking detail by Jorge Badía Romero, this 1967 D.C. Thomson gem captures a moment of quiet magic in a world where fate feels both inevitable and elusive.
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Alex counts the cherry stones every day, but they always say she is doomed to marry a thief. Nelly says that is a kid's game and she should read tea-leaves if she wants to read her fortune. Nelly tells her that she will meet a dark man with lots of money, cut off from the world by a kind of iron grille. Soon afterward, Alex meets a man who works in a post office.
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