It is a solid friendship of two like-minded Southerners that started in, of all places, a high-end restaurant in Beverly Hills. This was several years before I would meet my future husband who was working in an office a couple of miles up the street. I shall always be grateful to the good Lord for that moment in time for that coincidence, or rather collision, of Southerners bumping into each other who began a conversation - and through that, I found my dear friend, Walt Ehmer.