Chance meeting
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A friend from Santa Barbara was having dinner with friends in London they mentioned that they were off
to New York on a Hoover free flight. He told them that we were also doing that trip and they should ring
us. As we had never met only heard about each other through mutual friends they decided not to contact us.
Weeks later while seeing the N.Y. sites we noticed a film set outside the Plaza Hotel we stopped to look, being curious we asked the people in front what was being filmed. They told us and then asked if
if they detected a Wesh accent we said yes, the next question was did we know R&R (mutual friends) we replied yes, "you must be Ruth & Carol we are G&G" Our surprise and astonishment got as much attention from the crowd as the filming. We had no idea that they were in N.Y.
We got on really well and met up a few times that week, now many years later we still cannot believe what happened.
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:41:17 +0000Coincidence ID:4697
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