Coincidence Stories

Here I have presented one of the stories collected from the coincidence questionnaires. I have illustrated it with a simple image, letting the story speak for itself. The most striking stories will be made into a book, I will possibly use photography to illustrate them instead of collage. The story is written below as the font is too small to read.

This coincidence is actually not mine, but is how my grandma and her companion met. My grandma’s full name is Monique Gernigon, ten years ago she went traveling in Europe and lost her luggage. On the label was written M.Gernigon and her address in france. Two months later Air France called to say her luggage had been located in the Congo and that it would be delivered to her as soon as it arrived in france. She then got a phone call from a Maurice Gernigon who found himself with my grandma’s luggage, it turned out he lived just a few miles away and that the airport had delivered the luggage to the wrong address but to someone with the same initial and surname. They met up so that Maurice could hand back the luggage, since then Maurice and Monique Gernigon have been together for ten years. Without the coincidence of them sharing the same first initial and surname and the mix up caused by this at the airport they would never have met. It just makes me feel that life can be full of surprises and that things happen for a reason.