Two coincidences

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On the night that the Princess of Wales was killed in Paris I was watching the TV and reading and at about 1130pm ( 12 30 am in Paris and about the time of the accident ] I suddenly thought if someone in the Royal Family dies all the TV programmes will be cancelled. I then went back to my book and never gave it another thought until I heard the news the next morning. In the 1980s my husband was in charge of an audio - visual department at a Buckinghamshire Grammar school. I worked in a school in another part of the county and would sometimes borrow videos from my husband for the English Department in my school. One day a member of the English Dept in my school asked if my husband had a copy of Our Day Out which he could lend to my school. I was almost certain that he didn't have a copy but phoned him and left a message. He told me that as he received the message a member of staff from his school had walked through the door with a copy of Our Day Out asking if it could be copied.
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:32:24 +0000Coincidence ID:5320