Holiday coincidence
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In the 1970s I booked on a music-making holiday. At the time I was a trainee paediatrician in Sheffield. Also on the holiday was a trainee obstetrician from Sheffield who I knew slightly. "What a coincidence" we said. My next holiday was cross-country skiing in Norway. You can guess who was also on that holiday. I then moved to Liverpool and a couple of years later met a lovely chap from Staffordshire who worked for British Coal. We duly married and, there being no collieries in Liverpool, I moved to Staffordshire and took up a post at Burton on Trent. And you can bet who was by now a consultant obstetrician at Burton.
Date submitted:Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:07:18 +0000Coincidence ID:7102
