Time piece
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I found this interesting at the time and wrote it down but at the moment can't find it and as I don't know when the website will be packed up I will tell the story from memory, though I know I have it detailed and much more accurately written somewhere if anyone's interested. It is also pages longer than I tell it here.
I have hitch hiked since I was 14. I was picked up about 20 years ago by an elderly man in a white van who lived in Hastings. This is it:
The man's mother had been given a fob watch for her birthday around the beginning of the First World War. She married a man soon afterwards. Her husband went to fight in the trenches and very sadly he was killed in the trenches.
The lady married again some years later to a man who had also fought in the trenches.
He also had a fob watch. He had been given it by someone in the trenches, the number inside the watch was the next number in sequence to the one that his wife owned.
Date submitted:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:53 +0000Coincidence ID:5592
