Grandfather Writes Home
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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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After marriage, I rented and moved to a small house in Toronto, Canada. Shortly after my move, my aunt died; and I was in charge of looking through my grandparents' papers. As I am a writer, I was interested in particular with an envelope containing my grandfather's attempts at getting published. One letter came from a literary agent who seemed to be defending himself against having published my grandfather's work without paying him. This letter was sent 150 km to my grandfather (who lived near Niagara Falls) from the exact address of the house I had recently moved into. My grandfather had been writing to my home over 40 years before I lived in it! And there I was, 10 years after my grandfather's death, reading a letter that had been sent from "my new house" to my grandfather over 40 years ago.
Date submitted:Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:04:40 +0000Coincidence ID:5635
