Eerie Phone Coincidence
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I was having a rather lengthy argument with my mother and we had gone over a variety of topics, all over the place, really. In the course of this argument we had been arguing about one of her friends, who had been on my mind earlier that day. I brought up her friend in a casual way and didn't use the woman's name and when my mother asked who I was talking about, I said the woman's name. Not two seconds later the phone rang and it was that woman calling, just "coincidentally". It was so strange in that I had literally just said her name, and she hadn't called in a while (it wasn't like she was calling every day).
Date submitted:Sat, 08 Oct 2016 00:39:55 +0000Coincidence ID:8888
