Odd chance encounters in early 1970s
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When my husband and I lived in the USA - New Haven Connecticut - we made one visit to Boston - probably in 1971. While walking along a street we met the director of Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, where I used to live.
On our return to England in 1973, I visited the Tate Gallery - have not been there since, except to Tate Modern - and ran into neighbours from the street we had lived on in New Haven.
About 1975, we went to a party at the home of a work colleague. Chatting to someone, we discovered we were both born in Kendal and had lived on the same road. Then we realised we had played together as children, but did not recognise each other as grown-ups. Also she had changed her first name and I had married and changed my second name.
On holiday in Crete about 1974, people we knew in London were boarding the plane we had just got off. On the same holiday, as we got off a boat, we met a couple I had been good friends with at Cambridge.
Date submitted:Wed, 30 May 2012 21:50:21 +0000Coincidence ID:6406
