Ronda Rousey Laura Smith doesn’t believe in coincidences. To her way of thinking, some things – like the fact she happens to be a speech-language pathologist, while her 5-year-old daughter happens to have a relatively rare speech disorder – seem too neat to be nothing more than mere happenstance. It is perhaps because Smith believes this that she was willing to take action when she saw a series of events (the kind of events another type of person might dismiss as coincidences) seemingly guiding her to a Denver bookstore where UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey was signing copies of her memoir “My Fight/Your Fight” one night this past May. That’s when Smith’s action prompted Rousey’s action, which may very well in turn prompt other people’s actions, which is how the ripples of one person’s life reach out into the lives of others
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