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Your support makes all the difference.From Mr Bob Musker
Sir: On holiday on the Isle of Skye (600 miles from home) my wife and I became friendly with a couple from Carlisle who were also on holiday.
Thereafter, we exchanged a brief greeting each Christmas but knew nothing of each other's lives - until, on holiday 16 years later, we found ourselves parked next to them on Holy Island, Northumberland.
I imagine that the probability of a single chance encounter of the same couples is of the order of 10-million to one, but Dr Susan Blackmore may have a different answer ("Why chance is no coincidence", 29 August).
Yours sincerely,
Bob Musker
Headcorn, Kent
29 August
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