NUMBER 23 COINCIDENCE SUPERSTITION

This may seem like a strange question, it may be something, it may be nothing but I thought I´d ask it anyway. My girlfriend (Colombian) has for the past 6 or so months been followed by the number 23. It seems to be everywhere: the number of the flat she stayed in in London, the number of her ex-boyfriends flat, hand written on a wall in front of her in a café, the number of the street we stayed on in Cuba and the year of the film festival in the same place, the only winning number on a lottery ticket, she was discussing this subject in the back of a cab, the fare: 23 pounds… there are more. At first I thought it was just her noticing this number above all others but having travelled with her for a little while I have to admit it does seem odd.

Does it mean anything? Am I being sucked into her psychosis? We would very much appreciate your expert opinion.

Your email came to me while I was updating this section of the website about coincidences. At the same time I was listening to my radio archives and the programme about coincidences (There's a clip on the homepage page for this section) They were talking about strange number correlation and asking people in the street about sharing the same birthday date on the 24th of a month. (Not 23 but I notice that your email is yourname22@aol.com, the message about 23 and the radio saying 24. Makes: 22, 23, 24, Odd ehh!) Sometimes people can get a obsessive about coincidences but also sometimes they really do happen!

The late author William Burroughs was so obsessed by numeric coincidences surrounding 23, he kept a scrapbook of his findings. It is said he was alerted to the number's power when a Captain Clark told him he had run a ferry from Spain to Morocco with no problem for 23 years. Hours later it sank, killing the skipper. And pop band Psychic TV are so obsessed with 23 that at one point they made the Guinness Book of World Records by releasing 23 albums on the 23rd day of 23 months in a row. They were influenced by the occultist Aleister Crowley who had been convinced of the power of 23. And for the record, I live at number 23 and spent my childhood at a house numbered 23. When I met the medium Doris Stokes she said to me that 23 would be significant in my life. When I met my future wife - she lived at house number 23.

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