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On holiday with friends who lived two or three streets away, we decided to go on a boat trip. Among passengers disembarking from the boat we were about to board were our next door neighbours. But, what we found really strange, was that these neighbours were also on holiday with friends - and their friends just happened to be the next door neighbours of our friends!
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:23:25 +0000Coincidence ID:4427

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Sun, 15/01/2012 - 9:31am

Went to visit my cousin (we have probably met 3 times at 15 to 20 year intervals. Her lounge suite was the same make as ours (G plan); it was also covered in the same material, same pattern, same colour even, as we had chosen. Her sister had a series of prints of hand drawn animal pictures on the walls. We had exactly the same prints at home, only on table mats!