Long lost friend and chance encounters

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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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I was living in Bristol, visited my family in Liverpool, birthday event, went to a night club I only visited that once. Met a colleague I'd worked with in Ipswich 6 years earlier. She never went to nightclubs but this exception was for a special works event. A few days later I visited her home, on the bus on the way there I asked a passenger if she knew the road and when I should get off. She said her closest friend used to live in that road. She went on to tell me how special that friend was and that she spent the last 6 months of her life in a nursing home. It transpired that she lived at No 7, the house my friend now lived in. I arrived at my friend's house, before she even let me through the door she told me she was desperately anxiou. She couldn't sleep and felt afraid in the house because she knew that the woman who lived there had died and she couldn't rest because she didn't know whether the woman died in the house and didn't like to ask any neighbours. I was able to tell her that she died in the nursing home and that she had been a lovely lady. Her whole demeanor changed, it was as if the weight of the world had been lifted from her. I truly believe that, for whatever reason, I was meant to be her messenger. I have experienced many such co-incidences. PS The verification code to this message ende LFC ( my football club, so thanks for that)!!
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:56:53 +0000Coincidence ID:7615