Family Coincidence
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As a young married couple we moved into a new flat in 1965. There was an elderly lady living below who one day said that she thought she knew one of my visitors, he was my father who she used to babysit more than 50 years before. The next surprise was that she had a photograph of my grandfather ,who my father had never seen as he had disappeared when my father was about two,and the biggest surprise of all was that it was my grandfather who had run off to America in 1913/14 with her mother.
Date submitted:Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:05:58 +0000Coincidence ID:5685
