College friend living on same street (with other connections)
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A few days ago I got a friend request on Facebook from someone I had been friendly-acquaintances with in college 10+ years ago. I would have ignored it, as I'm usually pretty selective about Facebook friends, BUT upon looking at his page I noticed that he and his wife have 3-year-old twin boys.
What a coincidence, I thought: I am 35 weeks pregnant with twin girls. So I accepted his friend request (parents of multiples gotta stick together!).
A few minutes later, he messaged me to ask if I lived on [certain street] in [city 300 miles from where we both went to college]. I said yes, we did up until a few weeks ago, when we moved to a larger house a few miles away. He said, What a coincidence: I live on that street and I could have sworn I saw you walking by my house recently.
We shared a "wow" moment, and then I told him about our twins - another "wow" moment. I ALSO mentioned to him something else he didn't know: he's not the only parent of twins on that street - another family on the same block has 2-year-old twin boys.
Date submitted:Sun, 06 Mar 2016 06:36:43 +0000Coincidence ID:8496
