Ethiopia _ Revisited.

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I was travelling in Ethiopia in 1962 and stayed for one night in a hotel called the 'Bel Air' in Addis Abbaba. At breakfast the landlord brought his wife into the room with a baby girl born during the night to his wife. In 1982 on my second visit to Ethiopia, this time with my wife, we were travelling by train from Addis Abba to Nazaret. In the same compartment were a young woman, her husband and their baby. We began to talk and the mother was the baby girl that I had held in my arms 20 years before!! Incredible!!
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:14:17 +0000Coincidence ID:4289