random meeting abroad

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I would have been 10 or 11 when we were on a week's holiday in Ostend, Belgium. My mother started talking to someone we did not know, and it turned out to be her cousin with whom she had no contact for many years and whose name (Sonny - properly Clarence) we children had never even heard before. This was in the early 1950's when holidays abroad were not commonplace.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:07:41 +0000Coincidence ID:4965