new and old coincidences with a new aquaintance

I had moved to a small village in North Yorkshire to be near my son after living in Scotland and having grown up in Surrey. One day in church in my Yorkshire village I sat next to a woman I had not seen before and chatted to her. She had just arrived in the village to be near her daughter, coming from 'London'. It turned out that she had been married in the Surrey church where I worshipped in my childhood. The nest Sunday, she brought me a cutting from a newspaper dated 1926, which was a description of her mother's wedding at which my mother had sung a solo. This was the year before my mother was married and having an unusual maiden name (and married name) I have no doubt but that it was my mother. Furthermore, the first house my sister and her husband lived in happened to lie between that of my new aquaintance's aunt's house on one side and her cousin's on the other side. Both these ladies were leaders of the Girl's Life Brigade to which my sister and I had belonged. When I opened the door of my house this morning, the first person I saw was my new aquaintance................ Just one of several coincidences I have had in my life.