Three stories

Two American colleagues from New York visited me in London and I decided to take them to see some musician friends of mine who were giving a concert at a small venue in a part of southeast London that I had never been to before. We were all very surprised when we ran into another former colleague from New York at the concert. Walking home from my office in Manhattan on a Friday afternoon in the summer of 1988, I noticed a window display for a brand of perfume that reminded me of an American exchange student who had been a member of my seminar group and who had once told us that this type of fragrance was her favorite. I turned the corner and saw the woman whom I had just been thinking of and hadn't had any contact with since my university days. During a visit to the UK, I went to a library to do some research on the career of my godmother, who was a teacher and had died a couple of years earlier. The date was Thursday, June 6th. I later discovered that my godmother had been born on Thursday, June 6th. The late Brian Inglis wrote an interesting book on this subject - it was published by Hutchinson in 1990.