Three coincidental numbers

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When I married, the date was October 29. The house we moved into after was number 29. Six years later our baby girl was born on October 29! Sadly a few years later our marriage went badly wrong and we went separate ways. I took an apartment in Norwich, number 8. A year later I moved to Cambridge and took a bedsit, it happened to be number 8, not by choice. Another year later I was allocated a brand new apartment in Cambridge, also number 8!
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:59:10 +0000Coincidence ID:5368