Coworkers in Boston born same day/year in same hospital in Ohio
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I came to work at a Statistical Analysis Center at a Medical School in Boston several years ago. I am originally from Toledo Ohio (a city of about 300,000 some 800 miles away from Boston) I heard that one of my co-workers was also from Toledo. When we met we discovered that we born in the same year. At some later point, we discovered that we had the same birthday. For her next birthday, I decided to give her a unique birthday card containing a copy of the newspaper birth announcements for the day of our mutual birth. When I received it from my family in Ohio, I found that my coworker and I were born in the same hospital (there were perhaps half a dozen in Toledo itself at that time, maybe twice that number in the metropolitan area).
Date submitted:Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:03:12 +0000Coincidence ID:6055
