siblings meeting
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My friend, myself and anothr friend were returning home to Newcastle upon Tyne by train from a weekend in Edinburgh on pre-booked seats. Her brother knew nothing of this trip and had been to Edinburgh to see his soldier son off back to Germany from Edinburgh airport. He had intended to catch a later train back to his home in Durham but decided on the spur of the moment to go earlier and went to the station to catch a random train. He had not booked and it could have been a number of trains. Our train came in and we went to our coach to get to our seats ( which were numbered). As we approached the seats, we saw that a man was sitting in my friend's seat. Against amazing odds, it was her brother! of all the trains, carriages and seats he could have chosen, he sat in his sisters seat. The seat next to her was a free seat and he continued the journey with us.
Date submitted:Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:18:09 +0000Coincidence ID:6175
