I was just starting to question my own reality and sanity, when the doctor I met on hajj fifteen years ago messaged me with Eid greetings, and I recalled that moment too, sitting down amidst strangers in a tent in the midst of tens of thousands of tents, only to discover that the gentlemen at my side had been neighbours of mine in the suburbs of my hometown, and they both knew my mum from her days as hospital chaplain. So, yes, okay, really I should not be surprised by anything anymore, however unlikely or bizarre.
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