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My partner and I were in Antalya in October and bumped into someone I have worked with in a back street.
A few weeks later during a week-end in New York he got the better of me by having two such encounters, one with a colleague in a cafe by Times Square and one with a former colleague in the Metropolitan Museum.
Actually these coincidences happen so often that they clearly have a much higher degree of probability than instinct would lead us to expect.
Date submitted:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:55:48 +0000Coincidence ID:5551
