This ol' world can be pretty small. Mebbe twenty years ago, they had a bunch of masons in town throwin' firebrick inside the stock for a new boiler at the mill. I had some friends down for the weekend from New Brunswick. Weather came off cruddy, kinda restrictin' us and we wound up down at the local dive, quaffin' beers and waitin' our turn at the pool table.
One of my friends chats up one of the brickmasons and learns he's from Ohio. Buddy recalls that I was born in Ohio, finds this remarkable and so introduces us. Nothin' to talk about but Ohio so we do.
I allowed as I moved from there when I was three, but was born in Athens.
"Athens? he asks. "Yep. Shelterin' Arms Hospital," sez I.
That brought him right out of his sneakers as he had been born there, too, and the hospital had been closed for some years by then. We got comparin' notes and discovered that he was born the day before I was, which means we had to have been kept in the same nursery for a couple of days, the way they did things back then.
A thousand miles away and thirty-five years later . . .
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