Old Friends

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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We bought an apartment in Tenerife so that I could spend winter in the sun. My husband came out from the Midlands, where we moved some 20 years ago, to visit me but as he had a meeting in London on the Monday, flew back to Gatwick. On the flight, which he would never normally have taken, he met someone he used to play cricket with 30 years ago when we lived in the London area. They asked him if he'd been to see Lyn and Gordon, who live in Tenerife. Lyn was one of my best friends until we moved to the Midlands and we lost touch as she moved too. Of course, we got in touch and are once again very good friends. I've got other stories as this sort of thing happens to me quite a lot, but this is the best by far as it reunited us.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:19:52 +0000Coincidence ID:5030