Meeting in Boston
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Our only trip 'en famille' to Canada and the USA was in 1987. We had been to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia before driving down to Boston where we stayed with friends near by. While there, we went into Boston by underground and at one station, the train made to move off but stopped and the doors opened again for a few minutes. A few more people got on and the train moved off. I was standing, as were the latest passengers and I was aware of one of them near me and my daughter wondered, 'Why is that man looking so strangely at my Dad?' I turned towards him and saw it was a man who I had worked with until the year before. He had arived in the country that day to visit his son. We had not met since I had left Dorset the year before. It felt very strange and indeed the whole carriage was involved in our happy reunion!
Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:09:04 +0000Coincidence ID:4864
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