Coincidence

I received an email today from Martin Weaver, a student at Yale, encouraging me to attend.  It was quite a long email, but this paragraph jumped off the page: 

"I should probably tell you a little bit about myself. When I was saw you in the list I got so excited, I'm also half African-American and half Eastern European, my father is Christian and my mother is Jewish! Needless to say, my childhood was filled with surprises. On top of that, I grew up in Philadelphia, PA too, and went to Quaker school for two years, but I moved to Sicklerville, NJ and attended a public school there."

His identity was so similar to mine that I actually asked my mom if I had an older brother that I didn't know about.

I don't, but nonetheless, it was surprising.  

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