Birthday Concidences
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My name is Dave. I went to University of Sussex in 1969. In the same guesthouse was a guy called Mike who concidentally had the same birthday as me, namely 15 Jan 1951. Interestingly he also had a twin sister called Sarah, obviously also with the same birthday. Even more strange, we were all born on the same day in the same hospital, Middlesex Hospital, and when I mentioned this to my mother she could clearly remember the birth of twins on the same day as I was born.
As if that wasn't enough of a coincidence, two years later Mike, Sarah and I held a joint 21st birthday party, together with Mike's girlfriend at the time, and guess what, her birthday was on the same day as well.
Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:06:35 +0000Coincidence ID:5361
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