"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
    Arthur C. Clarke


Ebbie...you spoke of synchronicity..in 1975, the only time I was in Juneau, I was downtown in a drugstore..(is there more than one?) when someone behind me spoke my name. It was a guy I had met 4-5 years earlier in Iowa as part of an environmental project. We spoke for 2-3 minutes, and went our ways. Things happen.
   Years ago, I was visiting friends in Seattle and I was walking downtown, heading for a shop where woodwork was displayed....nothing happened until I got home...then a friend asked me, "Ummm...were you by any chance in Seattle last August?" Things happen....
*I* have picked up the phone and found it was someone I was just thinking about... things happen.

It is a lot easier about birthdays....there are standard formulas for predicting odds of B-day sharing under different conditions (# of people present, etc.) Turns out we greatly underestimate what the real odds are.
'Comparison' of traits in people we know/meet is highly subjective, and often depends on what we are looking for...my brother still swears that he knew several guys who are SURE they saw me walking down the street after HS graduation, wearing red suspenders and smoking a cigar....*shrug*...I guess I have a double somewhere. Things happen.... Things happening make life 'interesting', but I never go beyond just enjoying it.