Old classmates
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My friend Tom was studying in Berlin, and his mother came to visit him. They were walking down Unter den Linden, whilst mother, worried that her son wasn't yet married, insisted on running through the names of all the girls he had known back in school in the Ruhr area of West Germany. Most of them were long forgotten, and Tom had no idea where they were or what had become of them. But on and on she went. "What ever became of Ursula ******? " she asked, and Tom put out his hand, stopped a passing woman, and said to his mother: "Here she is - ask her yourself!!!" Neither knew the other was in Berlin, and neither had seen or heard of each other in the intervening years.
Date submitted:Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:03:20 +0000Coincidence ID:5929
