“Mind-Blowing Coincidences: 24 Stories That Will Make You Question Fate!”
The very next day i got dinner with a different friend from college who has never met the friend i went to the game with. I’m telling him this story and i happened to mention the address. He immediately got really suspicious of my story. Turns out It was his house and his mother i tried to stay at. Everything i told that woman was inadvertently true – i really did know her son!
My father was a naval officer, so we lived in a lot of places – some fairly unusual. When I was 13, we moved to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Our home was 8500′ above sea-level and 600 miles from the Red Sea – not a place you’d expect to find US Navy.
Dad got to know the Marines in the security detachment at the US Embassy well, and one day Bob, the Gunnery Sergeant, came to him with an unusual request. His fiancee Carol was coming to Addis; they were to be married at the embassy. Bob wanted my dad to stand-in for her father – to give the bride away. My dad agreed immediately. In fact the reception was at our home.
A few months later Bob got orders; he and Carol left Ethiopia, promising to keep in touch. A year later, on a Thursday in September, Bob was walking into the American Embassy in Amman Jordan on his day off; he’d forgotten something. One of the on-duty Marines asked, “Hey Gunny, weren’t you in Addis before you came here? Some Americans from there were in a car accident on their way back from Petra. Do you know anyone on this list?”
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