"familiar" family
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I moved to a seaside town 75 miles from my place of birth in my forties and went to the local college. I meet a lady there who i immediately felt (the word cannot be attracted) but as an hextrosexual female to another hextrosexual female I said at the time "I feel as though I've known you all my life." We both had busy lives I was contemplating divorcing my husband, my friend and I both had a hyperactive child. We never got intouch apart from college and when it came to the end of the last term I had no one to babysit and ended up cutting college. I never knew her surname of even where she lived apart from the fact she lived in the next town. I was very sorry I hadn't kept in touch.
I had a part time job and a small pottery business and was kept very busy. On the 13th Feb 1992 I had had enough of my husband unfaithfulness and rang his brother (when he'd stayed out yet another night) to collect his stuff. I had the locks changed and then spent twelve months divorcing him.
In June 1993 I met my present husband in a local cafe I went to near my pottery business, he was sat with a customer of mine. I sat with the group and invited him to look at my work when he displayed an interest. I was very attracted to him and remember vividly the clay dust on my skirt and shoes. I showed him a knight on horseback I had made withe the initials L & M on his shield. When he expressed an interest I laughingly told him it was my knight and I was waiting for him. For no good reason I cried after he left and felt bereft. I was very happy that day when I went to work and looking forward to taking my children on holiday I was very happily single. Two weeks latter I was in the cafe again and I met the same customers again and asked them if they knew of a plumber who could fix the handle on my toilet. They said they had a friend. That evening they brought the same guy round to fix my toilet. When they were all leaving I looked at the clock and said I should have got some milk. They all left and the friend, Michael, came back with a bottle of milk. I invited him in for a tea and we talked till dawn. We could not believe we had so much in common. His wife had died on 13th February, 1992 in the morning as I had finished with my ex in the evening.
We thought the knight having initials L & M (we are Linda and Michael) was the final coincidence but we found that throughout the previous 20 years we had been in the same place at the same time and never met.
We were married five weeks later and have been blissfully happy for the last 18 years. At our wedding the icing on the cake was meeting for the first time my new sister-in-law, my friend who I had lost touch with at college.
At my sister-in-law's wedding anniversary I met her best friend, who I had lived next door to as a child in my home town.
I could go on our lives are intertwined like ivy we all love the same things and we all feel we must have been here before in a family we have so much in common. My husband is very close to his brother and regards him as his best friend.
So life is very good. Every time we meet I will be wearing the same top or some other coincidence. My husband is completely intune with his brother and are like bookends.
I could go on there are so many coincidences which happening on a weekly daily basis you could believe them contrived but our only notice must be telepathy as nothing is prearranged.
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:46:19 +0000Coincidence ID:4393
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