Daily Mail

I’ve not seen you in . . . centuries!

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RECENT stories of people meeting up again by coincidenc­e (Peterborou­gh) reminded me of the time I was a police officer in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordsh­ire. Doing point duty in the town centre, I was suddenly surprised to see walking on the pavement towards me an old friend whom I’d not seen for many a year. He was wearing clerical clothes and a dog collar. Such was my amazement, I left the traffic control and went to meet him. Although I was in uniform, he recognised me immediatel­y and we greeted each other enthusiast­ically. We chatted, and it was obvious what I was now doing, while he told me he had just been appointed as the new curate at the local C of E church. We then got around to finding out when and where was the last time we’d seen each other. Therein lies the coincidenc­e. We went through our entire lives from school days, military service and civilian occupation­s. It was then that we both had to acknowledg­e the fact that we had never actually met each other before — at least not in this lifetime!

M. D. Davies, Nuneaton, Warks.

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