Care to share some odd, funny, strange coincidences you've experienced?

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answer:Coincidences are sort of magical, aren’t they? Here are a few of mine: – I live in the central US. While inspecting a hotel on the East coast, I decided to go down to the breakfast area for one more cup of coffee before meeting with the staff. There was a guest sitting at a table that looked very familiar. After getting up the nerve to go speak to him, it turned out to be a cousin I hadn’t seen in years and lives on the West coast. - I was staying at Mom’s house while taking care of my sister in her the last stage of cancer. I suddenly woke up at 4am and hightailed it over to the sister’s house. Her body was warm, but she was gone. I don’t know what caused the ‘wake-up’ call, but I will ever be thankful to having been there before her young daughters discovered her body. - The best coincidence though is not mine. A co-worker was walking through the airport in his hometown. A pay phone started ringing, and since he had time before his flight, he decided to answer it and tell the caller that no one was in the immediate area of the phone bank. The caller said that he had been paged, and this was the return number given. It turned out to be the co-worker’s cousin.

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