baby friends meet as adults
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My daughter was born in The Hague in 1982. We knew most of the ex-pat British families and I had a friend who had a baby boy shortly before my daughter was born. We left Holland when she was a year old and went to live in Australia and subsequently returned to England when she was 4. We never saw the family again. When she was a student, aged about 20, she went on holiday to Greece and met up with a crowd of British boys. One of them told her he was born in The Hague. She said she was too and thought no more about it. When she told me the story and said his name was Alex, I asked her if his surname was Sheppeard. It was. I asked his birthday and where his family lived, and sure enough it was the same baby boy she had 'known' in her first year of life.
Date submitted:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:45:11 +0000Coincidence ID:5567
