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Thread #63931   Message #1042205
Posted By: mack/misophist
26-Oct-03 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Chance meetings in foreign parts
Subject: RE: BS: Chance meetings in foreign parts
One day at a navy base (you can't get much more foreign than that) we were told to line up in alphabetical order. There was another guy there with the same name as me; not friend or a known relative. It turned out that our ancestors were from the same corner of Poland and our fathers had shortened the name in the same way. Is that close enough?