Mere Coincidence

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Three years after my sister, her husband and three children emigrated to Adelaide, S.Australia, I called at our hardware store for screws for my husband's diy effort. These were wrapped in a scrap of Dalton's Weekly. As I screwed up the paper to throw in the bin a piece of print caught my eye. It was my sister's old address in Crawley, Sussex and the house was for sale again. Their purchasers were selling up to emigrate to Adelaide so that my relatives were there to meet and help them settle. This was just because I had spotted that piece of news in a paper I never usually read. I wrote about this in more detail for a U3A exercise.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:30:20 +0000Coincidence ID:4176