A double coincidence

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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I was born in Hertfordshire and and lived in Surrey. My wife was born in Harrogate and then lived in Surrey. We met in 1990 and married in 1995. It transpired that her parents met in Harrogate in the 1940s at a youth club run by a Methodist minister ; he, by sheer coincidence, had been at school in Wales with my father in the 1920s, then in the 1930s married my parents and christened me. At our wedding were two guests whom I had first met in London in the early 1980s. It so happens that my new father-in-law had taken their wedding photographs in Harrogate in the 1960s.
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:05:03 +0000Coincidence ID:5360