Grad school in NYC —> researched in a lab with a bunch of super nice postdocs and fellow grad students —> one of the guys (and he wasn’t from Maine) went to Maine for vacation at one point.

After he came back and we were chatting about his trip, it turned out he’d stayed a couple nights in the town where my mom and brother live! He even went into the library where my mom works but she was off that day. Weird coincidence.