Distant relatives are friend's best friends
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My father, who grew up in London, had a cousin from Cheshire who married a Welshman and settled in S Wales. We never saw them. I went to university in Cardiff and during the first week made friends with a girl from Sussex who shared the same lodgings. She started going out with a fellow student who she eventually married and we were all friends during uni. He was from south Wales and it turned out his parents were best friends with my father's cousin and her husband, and the two families frequently went on holiday together.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:11:21 +0000Coincidence ID:6982
