The second of my four daughters was born on April 4, Easter Sunday, 1999 and we named her Patricia Frances. The "Patricia" was after her maternal grandmother. Our last name is Boucher. She was born at Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario, very close to the 403 HWY.

I learned several months after Patricia was born that a 20-year-old exchange student from France, going to the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, by the name of Patricia Boucher was killed in a head-on collision on the 403 HWY in Mississauga, Ontario, on the December 26 prior to our Patricia's birthday.

An article about it was published in the Western U paper, The Gazette, Vol. 93, Issue X, Mar. 18. So my wife was pregnant with our Patricia Frances Boucher when Patricia Boucher from France was killed near where ours was born. Christmas/Easter.

This may be explained as just chance: weird, yes, but nothing more than chance. However, I have experienced so many suchlike personal and improbable coincidences that I have persuaded myself that it is not chance; the only other alternative is design; i.e., God.

Alan Boucher
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Posted Sept. 22, 2010