Neighbours with an unknown connection
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Up till September this year we were living in a house in Cheshire, and the day we moved out we were loading the car up and someone pulled up next door and got out. The lady and I stood talking, (I'd never seen her before) she was visiting her brother who lived next door. We didn't know the neighbours very well as we had only lived in the house 6 months. As I got talking to her I was convinced I knew her from somewhere. I asked her if she recognised me, she said I looked familiar but couldn't think where from. I asked her all sorts of questions, no, nothing clicked. Finally I asked her name, and when she told me I realised it was a lady who's husband worked with my husband 5 years previously and we used to meet up and go shopping while our husbands were doing exhibitions for the company they worked for! It turned out we had been living next door to her brother for the last six months not knowing the connection.
Date submitted:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:04:50 +0000Coincidence ID:5554
