Gallery Chance Meeting

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In July 2011, I was visiting the Museum of Art in Philadelphia on my first visit to the United States. One small gallery is dedicated to new acquisitions. I believe I was the only person in this gallery when my sister-in-law's brother and his partner walked in. They live near my brother and his wife in a village in North Norfolk, U.K. I was staying with friends in Philadelphia. When I returned to their house that evening, the 'Philadelphia Enquirer' had on the front page a picture of a painting the Museum had just acquired and of the precise spot where we had chanced to meet. (Unknown to me, my sister-in-law's brother's partner was in the U.S.A. to visit her son who lives in Vermont.)
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