Cambridge Coincidences Collection

This applies to both Matt and Lora and took place within a year or at almost the same time: : Both first born, a year apart, left handers with partial color blindness. Both fathers musical and played the accordion. English not the first language - learned at time of school entry or just before. First language now forgotten or nearly so – English spoken with no accents. Moved to a new school in second grade. Sent to live with others for a year at age 7. Lora was sent from a farm to a town and Matt was sent from the city to a farm. Both have special memories of cap six shooters and playing cowboy with them. Both are greatly moved by music and can get weepy over it, and prefer dry humor Both are avid readers – neither cares for fiction. Both once married and had two children. One of each of the children have ADD - the dark haired first borns.

I have recently noticed a lot of coincidences in my life between age and date. Where the same numbers occur in my age to the numbers that occur in the date of the year, it seems there is a significant change to my life soon after. In 1961 I turned 16 and met my future husband. We didn't have much to do with each other until we met again in 1971. We decided to marry in 1972 when I was 27. The date of our marriage was the 27th January 1973. On this date my father's age was 65 years 10 months and my mother's age was 62 years 9 months. If you add the years together the total is 127 years. My husband and I bought our first house when I was 38 in 1983. The dynamics of our marriage changed significantly in 1994 when I was 49. and we ultimately decided to divorce in 2001 after 27 years of marriage. It is now 2017 and I am 71 years 11 months. I will be 72 in October. If we were still married it would be 45 years since our marriage on the 27th January 2018.

I was 5 years old when my parents divorce was finalized. My father remarried shortly thereafter as his mistress was pregnant with my new baby brother. Young and clueless as to the details and heartache my mother had endured and kept hidden from my older brother, older sister and I , we anxiously awaited the day to come, this day that we were to meet our new additional family. Lori, our step mother had two children at this time. Jennifer and Jason Belair. My Dad did not marry her until two years later so she kept her name as Lori Belair until 1988. Their divorce was finalized in 1992. The memories of these years are prominent to my childhood. To this day I still remain in contact with my once step siblings. My mother remarried in 1993 only to divorce in 1999. She married once again in 2002 to who is now my step dad. I gained three new step siblings through this marriage. Their names are Lori, Jason, and Jennifer Belair. This is a coincidence that I try to make sense of but cannot. If this was the only name coincidence in my life I could probably recognize it as simply that but it is not. My children's father has an older sister named Michelle Lee, born July 7 1978.

Roughly fifty years ago I took the back off our valve radio and I removed and cleaned the dust off the valves and the rest of the chassis etc. When I put the valves back in and was about to switch it on either my mother or myself said maybe we will get a message from Mars now. When I switched the radio on the first words from the speaker were "Mars calling, Mars calling". My mother and I were speechless. I do not expect anyone to actually believe this but it did happen.