I did not talk to my wife when I was a kid

So I was about 10 years old, my father was in Vietnam, I was at the zoo in Omaha Nebraska, you could walk into the big lion enclosure on a grated floor and look down at the lions, they would come up to the grated floor and snarl at you, I was watching this when this little girl about my age was watching too, she was very cute and I have always remembered her even though I haven't seen her in about 58 years. She was white, had curly blonde hair, about 4 or 5 feet tall at the time, she smiled at me and I think I smiled back, when I told this story to my wife about a year ago, she said, that was me, and we were married about a year and a half later. I was in the army for 3 years and got out of the army in Grand Island Nebraska, which is where she lived, I traveled to Omaha, got a job, met her in a record store, we started dating, and got married. How could I have known she would grow up and look the same a 12 year old girl would at the age of 22, unless there was some kind of connection?