Recycled Telephone Number
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I was working from home as dressmaker when the children were small, and a customer from across town was reading out her new phone number to me. The kids could not understand why I was so amazed to discover that it was our old number from before we switched phone companies the previous year. That was until I showed them the phone directory for our city of 400,000 and they realised there were quite a few other people that the number could have been given to instead!
Date submitted:Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:06:32 +0000Coincidence ID:9007
