Spanish Police Station
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In the 1980s I worked for Grove Dictionary of Music as a picture researcher and my job involved a lot of overseas correspondence. 10 years later while on holiday in Seville, our hire car was broken into. At the police station we met two American women who had also suffered a theft that day. In the course of conversation we discovered that one of the Americans and I had been in correspondence over pictures of the Composer Lou Harrison. We had never met so would not have recognised each other, but got talking and found our connection.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:03:05 +0000Coincidence ID:6979
