Birthday coincidence
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We have two married daughters living with their parners in Wales.They were born in 1980 and 1984. The older daughters' first born, a boy, was born in the evening of his mum's birthday 7th April. Six years later our younger daughter has just had her first, a boy, born in the evening of her birthday 24th January.
My neighbour told me he had heard the Today programme on Radio 4 and suggested I write in with our birthday coincidence. (By the way I have two sisters, one 3 years older the other 6 years younger than me and they share the same birthday of 24th Dec while mine is 25th Dec. Also in '96 I was 48 my son was 24 and my two daughters were12 and 6.)
Date submitted:Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:19:15 +0000Coincidence ID:5833
