1. "After years of living around the USA, I got married and resettled not too far from where I grew up. Soon after, I saw my high school 'puppy love' ex-girlfriend at one of my wife’s ultrasound appointments for our first child, about 15 years after we had last communicated. I learned that she was a litigator who had married a college professor, as I was at the time. She was almost exactly as far along as my wife, was planning to name her daughter the same thing we were planning to name ours, and had just bought a house in the same suburb we had. The parallels were bizarre. Even more bizarre, she and my wife ended up giving birth on the same day, on the same floor of the same hospital, and both used the same name. We didn’t communicate or keep in touch after that, but I still remember everything about her and wonder how our lives ended up looking so similarly." —Anonymous, 46, Chicago, USA 5. "We met, and it was electric, like nothing I’d ever experienced before. We couldn’t keep our hands off each other.…