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It really is a small world.

In 1987 while in the Army stationed in Germany. I was selected to attend a French Commando course that was conducted in Northern France. US soldiers from various units within Germany attended this course.

One day, a week or two into the course, several of us are eating MREs, shooting the **** and talking about home back in the states. We're all telling each other where we are all from.

I say I'm from Portland Oregon. (I say Portland figuring no one wouldve heard of where i actually lived) One of the guys asks me if I actually lived in Portland and says he was from West Linn. I tell him I actually lived in Gladstone and that my best friend and a girl I dated were from West Linn. Of course we are both excited to see someone from home and continue to chat it up. I ask him if he knew the girl that I knew and he exclaimed yeah I know her! He then takes out his wallet and pulls out her wallet sized senior picture. I'm like OMG, I pull out my wallet and show him the exact same picture.......The whole group couldn't believe it. Actually all these years later, Im still tripped out about it.

It really is a small world.