Chance meeting in New Zealand

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Three years ago my husband and I were walking on a fairly remote beach in New Zealand. We came across only one other couple and inevitably fell into conversation. They were "locals" and they asked where we were from. When we said Essex UK, they said they only knew one place in Essex, and to our astonishment named the relatively small seaside town (which is not well known) in which we live. They had visited as they had a good friend who lived there. To our further amazement they named the friend, who is an artist, and whom we knew slightly as my husband had bought a painting from him some time previously.
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:43:21 +0000Coincidence ID:4698