Anyone who reads the book by Dr Levinson which I mentioned above will no longer be surprised or amazed by coincidences. He demonstrates statstically (with easy to understand mathematics) why coincidences are bound to happen, and that it would indeed be remarkable if they didn't happen.

But coincidences is what they are, nothing less, nothing more, no matter how shaken or impressed you were at the time. Remember,as a parallel, even though the likelihood of you winning the State lottery is astronomically small, the probability that someone will win it on any given occasion is quite high.

Murray