<p>We have friends with 3 Ds born tears apart–all in the same month. My kids are exactly 2 years and 5 days apart-- S was born late and D was born early. Both weighed 6 pounds 1/2 ounce. </p>
<p>Went from HI to DC one summer and ran into my childhood friend and her family twice in that week!</p>
<p>My DH and S2 have the exact same PIN # for their Well Fargo Debit cards. DH’s was generated randomly to him by the bank. Years later, S2 chose his number( a combo of his football jersey # and h.s. grad. year)when he opened his acct. He had no idea DH already had that number.</p>
<p>Even after they’d had the same numbers for awhile, they never knew it unitil they went to the bank together to set up credit card acct. for S2 to use in college.</p>
<p>S1 had a work assignment for a week in China. While there, he went to see The Great Wall. He was wearing his NC State t-shirt. As he was walking atop the wall amongst hundreds of tourists, he hears someone give a loud yell for NC State. It came from a family from Raleigh,NC…home of NCSU. They just happened to be walking by that particular spot along the Great Wall of China the same day/ time as S1.</p>
<p>Our youngest two were born on the same day at the same hospital—oh wait, they are twins :D</p>
<p>The admissions counselor at their chosen college lived in the same small town we did (at a different time) several states away from said college.</p>
<p>My parents raised my cousin, who is 10 years older than I am. Dh was transferred from the above town to another town for work, town of about 200,000 people. The house we bought in that town was the house my cousin’s college roommate (all 4 years) grew up in. Her parents had sold the house to another family so we didn’t buy it from them.</p>
<p>The day my mom died and and we were sitting with her, I offered up a (nonverbal) request: Mom i could really use a sign. And hummed in my head, “I need a sign, show me that you’re there…calling all angels.” On the short car ride home, the second song that came on. “I need a sign…”</p>
<p>We closed on our house last week and during random chitchat, we discovered that H and the wife grew up in the same town - several states away…around the corner from each other…and rode the same schoolbus!</p>
<p>After the wife described her house, H said he thought he remembered that the “Doe” family lived there at one time. She then exclaimed, “I’m Jane Doe!” There was much reminiscing and laughter (and we even signed the papers :D), and the agents and broker said it was the most entertaining closing they had ever attended.</p>
<p>DH, Ss and I were on an almost coast-to-coast road trip to see the western National Parks. Over the three weeks we’d also seen all five of his sibs, but his parents live in south Texas and we weren’t up to tacking that on to our already long drive. As we were heading west on route 66 I suggested he call his parents and see what they were up to. (He doesn’t talk to them regularly.) After talking to them for a minute or two he told me suddenly “take this exit!” His parents happened to be on their way home from Arizona and we were five miles apart when he called. We met up for coffee and then continued on in opposite directions.</p>
<p>My brother met a young woman in college at a party. He and she were chatting and it turned out they were both from the same town. As they continued to talk, my brother said that his family lived on X street. She responded that her family had just moved to X street. My brother said, “Really, what a coincidence. Which house did your family move into?” She said, “To 7771 X street” My brother said, “Your family can’t live there, that’s where I live.”</p>
<p>Turned out her family moved to a house 3 doors away but when he told me the story and her name. I recognized her as being a high school teacher’s assistant that had helped in my 5th grade class. And, she also had a younger sister with the same name I have.</p>
<p>My step-grandparents died, exactly a year apart, same day, from the same ailment-ruptured aortic aneurysm.</p>
<p>One day after we were married we were sitting at one of DH’s family gatherings and someone remarked that I looked a lot like a cousin. Discovered that my father’s cousin had married his mother’s cousin. We all knew and had visited that same family in a distant state.</p>
<p>I am at a wedding of a relative of DH on the opposite coast from where we live. The relative (Fa of the bride) used to work with the uncle of our s’s girlfriend.</p>
<p>I have no personal connection with this story, but it’s my favorite co-incidence story–well, it was until I read the follow up article today. I googled and found a link to it in People magazine’s archive [What</a> Happens When Three Young Men Find Out They’re Triplets? It’s Not as Simple as 1-2-3 : People.com](<a href=“http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077622,00.html]What”>http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20077622,00.html) just so you’ll know it really happened.</p>
<p>Robert started Sullivan County Community College in upstate NY. Random people come up and greet him, sometimes even hugging him, calling him Eddy and telling him they are so glad he didn’t transfer after all. He is totally befuddled because every time he tries to tell them he isn’t Eddy, they think he’s joking. He has to pull out driver’s license, etc. to prove it. </p>
<p>Robert meets Eddy’s best friend who knows Eddy really has transferred to Nassau Community College on Long Island. Friend is blown away. Says you two could be identical twins. He arranges a meeting between Robert and Eddy. It turns out they were born the same day…and both are adopted! None of their parents were told their adopted son was a twin. Story goes viral. </p>
<p>At which point, a 19 year old at Queens College sees the story and…yep…he’s their triplet. </p>
<p>If Robert hadn’t enrolled in the same community college as Eddy a year later, they never would have learned they were identical triplets.</p>
<p>All 3 smoked the same brand of cigarettes, BTW.</p>
<p>Googling more, I found they didn’t all live happily ever after…and that the separation of the boys at birth was intentional. It was part of a study to see the effects of nature vs. nurture. None of their adoptive parents knew. <a href=“http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/27/health/he-47103[/url]”>http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/27/health/he-47103</a></p>
<p>Is it just me, or is the level of indignation expressed in that story over the separation of the triplets and adoption into separate homes a bit overblown?</p>
<p>August 8 keeps popping up in my family with both good and bad events. My parents married on that date. My maternal grandmother died on that date. Ten years after she died, my father died on that date, which was my parents’ 52nd anniversary. One of my eldest D’s friends was born on 08-08-1980 and had a huge 8th birthday bash on 08-08-1988. D’s friend and many of the guests, including D, were featured on our local TV news. Eldest D’s cat was born on August 8. I know that there have been some other memorable events in our family on that date that are hiding in the back of my mind…</p>
<p>Three men, unknown to each other, were in a checkout line at a hardware store on a Sunday. The first had on a UVa t-shirt. The second had on a Virginia Tech t-shirt. The third had on a William and Mary t-shirt.</p>
<p>Richmond? NoVa? Norfolk? No. Perth, Australia.</p>
<p>A few years ago my husband and I were in Tuscany on a fall day mid-week having lunch in a small Tuscan town. There was a young couple also having lunch there who we happened to notice because they were speaking English. The following day we were in a different small Tuscan town about 30 miles away having dinner at a tiny restaurant that had only a few patrons that rainy evening – and who walks in but the same young couple. Okay, not too coincidental. A few days later we drive to Florence, return the rental car and stay 3 days and arrive at the train station on our way to Lugano, Switzerland via a change-over in Milan. Who is at the Venice train station on that same morning, but the young couple. And of all the trains going to different destinations, it turns out they’re not only boarding the train to Milan, but they have assigned seats in the same car as us! So, we arrive at Milan, change trains, and you guessed it – when we get on the train towards Zurich, stopping at Lugano (our destination), the same young couple has also boarded! And they’re in the same car as us! At this point, I go up to them and mention all the places we’ve bumped into them. I tell them that we’re heading to Lugano to visit my husband’s brother, and that would be way too coincidental if they’re going there too. They joked with us that they’re also visiting him, but then said, no… they were going to Zurich.</p>
<p>I never did find out where they were from, but it was so odd to keep having them turn up at every turn!</p>
<p>H and I met on vacation over one hundred miles away from where we live. H and I found out we both lived on the same street at different times, worked previously at the same place at different times, and at the time we met we were both working at the same company in different buildings.</p>
<p>@dancersmom, the Chinese think the number 8 is auspicious. That’s why the Beijing Olympics opened on 08-08-2008</p>
<p>These stories are really interesting. I hope more people join in.</p>
<p>Kluge, I actually do think it was inappropriate to separate the triplets in the name of science. This is a photo of what they look like and of course the sad news about the 3rd triplet killing himself. I do think they were robbed of a connection that they would have had to support one another.</p>
<p>[Edward</a> ““Eddy”” Galland (1961 - 1995) - Find A Grave Memorial](<a href=“http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17986675]Edward”>http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=17986675)</p>
<p>Another coincidence - when I was in college at Penn State my roommate’s parents were working in Saudi Arbia. When she went there over a vacation break friends of her parents said they knew someone at Penn State and maybe roommate knew the person. Say - 40,000 on campus - why not? It was the guy she had to gone to Prom with in HS.</p>