Marlon Brando

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This may seem more in the vein of the supernatural but involves a coincidence nonetheless less. I am a huge Marlon Brando fan and have read all there is to read about his life and his work and I've seen all of his movies and tv appearances (that I could find). One day after finishing a particularly interesting biography on the man I sat in silence on my sofa to think about what I had just read. After a few minutes I began to smell the faint smell of cigarette smoke which grew stronger and after maybe two minutes dissipated into thin air. I have never been a smoker, no one has ever smoked in my home and there was no one outside at the time smoking either. At first I thought "good lord I need to see a neurologist I probably have a tumor. I'm smelling phantom smells" . But I thought about how Marlon Brando was a life long smoker and how incredibly creepy that connection is. I pushed it out of my mind as rubbish. A few hours later I went to pick up my child from daycare and when I step inside a new parent is the foyer speaking to one of the teachers and she mentioned her daughters name "Cheyenne". Brando's daughter was named Cheyenne.
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Date submitted:Fri, 17 Feb 2017 06:55:58 +0000Coincidence ID:9017