old friend
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went to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Christmas with my vegan partner. 2003. I wrote ahead to the Manager to ask if a vegan Christmas meal was possible, and then asked when we got there. It was suggested that we talked to the chef.
After all sorts of dancing around, it truend out that the chef was the boy who lived over the road from me whenm I was young. We lived in Sowerby, a hamlet outside Sowereby Bridge. He was Catholic, and I wasn't so we went to different schools. We left Yorkshire for Birmingham in 1957, when I was 7. No contact with the area since.
The coincidence was found because we talked. We each recognised the name , and then , gradually, the face. Maybe I have missed a million similar coincidences...
He was ill the next day, Christmas Day, but the meal was fine. No contact since.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:36:26 +0000Coincidence ID:6955
