A mistaken identity.
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A couple of years ago I was shown an old photograph in my local newspaper. It was from about 1964-1965 and showed the teams from a school football final from that year. One team was shown above the other on the photograph. The person who had the photograph pointed me out in the line up but told me that the captions on the photograph were reversed and that each teams picture had the names mixed up. I thought no more about this until a few weeks later when my wife and myself were at some friends house. This couple are good friends and we have known them since about 1980. They showed me the same photograph and asked if I had seen it. I replied that I had but that the names of the teams were reversed. I was asked to look closer. Mine was not the only name I recognised on the photograph. On closer inspection I found that my friend and I were standing in exactly the same positions in said picture and that on the captions my photograph carried his name and vice versa. Spooky or what ?
Date submitted:Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:16:29 +0000Coincidence ID:6277
