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I was in hospital for a knee operation, and during that time I got to know one of the male nurses on the ward. My fiancee also worked at the hospital, on the administration side, and also knew this nurse because of this. About 3 years later my fiancee and I got married, and decided we would go to Australia on the £10 assisted passage. A few years later we were relaxing with some friends, on a little beach south of Sydney. We saw some people walking towards us, and when they got close we saw that one of them was the nurse we had both first met at the hospital. When we first met neither of us had thought of going to Australia. That was nearly 50 years ago, and we never met again afterwards.
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Date submitted:Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:38:41 +0000Coincidence ID:5163