Relations

In 1973 my wife and I first worked together for the Arts Council in London. Just before I was about to leave my job and travel to Australia to spend time with my parents who had gone there to live a few years before, my wife and I became romantically involved. Suddenly being in love I questioned whether I should go to Australia. I wrote to my parents explaining my dilemma. Although not having worked before soon after arriving in Australia to live my mother had got a job working in a small office. She had been there for 2/3 years. In the office were a couple of other women. On getting my news my mother mentioned my romantic involvement to one of the other women. 'The girl's called Fiona. She works with him at the Arts Council.' 'That's strange,' the woman responded. 'My cousin Fiona works at the Arts Council in London.' So the coincidence was that my mother and Fiona's one cousin who had moved to Australia 30 years before worked in the same small office for 2 years before we became involved. This unknown to either Fiona or I beforehand.