Repeatedly missed meetings.

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I met a guy over the internet when I was 15. I lied about my age, (it was only a few days before my 16th birthday), went to Birmingham (I lived in Southampton) and met him at New Street. We hit it off, and went out for a year. After we broke up, a year or so later I went to look around Birmingham University. I bumped into him. Spent all day round his student house rather than researching the university. A few months later I went to a concert in Birmingham with my new boyfriend. I bumped into every single one of my ex's friends, but not him. I got invited to a barbecue with them, and found out they were going to the same concert. My tickets were in the same block, but the row behind theirs. (I also bumped into my ex between the concert and the barbecue.) A few years later, I received an email out of the blue from my ex - he had had a dream that I'd been seriously injured in a car crash - and realised it would have upset him if I wasn't ok. So he emailed me through ICQ. I got a message from the service after I hadn't logged in for a month, telling me that someone had tried to get in touch. The weekend he had tried to make contact, I had been involved in a stupid shunt in a car park and my car had sustained minor damage. I was fine. We stayed in touch and met up a few months later. 10 years later than that, we are married and have 2 kids. On comparing notes on our passports when travelling abroad, we had the same date and same airport stamp in our passports in 1998 - we had both been in Charlotte, North Carolina at the same time. He was there to help family to rebuild their house after it was flattened by a tornado - I was there on a school exchange. He can't remember which airline he flew with, but there is a strong chance we were both on the same plane, almost certainly stood in the same passport control queue.
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Date submitted:Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:35:31 +0000Coincidence ID:6435