Did he know my mother
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I was working in a community centre for a couple of years when one day a plain clothes detective came in and asked for our resident JP. I knew all the local police but not him. Whilst he was waiting he kept looking at me and would smile and look away and shook his head a couple of times. With that I acknwledged the joke and asked what I had done. He then replied that I was an identicial twin of a girl he had dated many years earlier but I couldn't be her because that had been about 20 years or so earlier and this was in Maryborough, approximately 300 kilomtres from Brisbane where I was living and working. At that point our JP came out and took him into her office. I was gobsmacked. I didn't get to speak with him again and never saw him again and didn't find out his name. But what he didn't know was that I was born in Maryborough, adopted and raised in Brisbane and I was around 21 at the time. So did he know my mother? I have never found out who she is and didn't get to find out who he was.
Date submitted:Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:22:57 +0000Coincidence ID:5435
