Journey-on,
I found your story very intriguing...
I do believe in coincidence but, I also believe in "Fate"... there are some things that just can't be written off.
The following is a small example of something that happen to me, I would love your thoughts on it as well....
Living out in the country...one morning I looked out the back window and saw in our back yard, a yellow balloon on a string, attached to something on the ground. I went out to see what it was.
The attachment was a card that said it was from an Elementary School, that had released one hundred balloons, a week prior, from Southern Oklahoma. Amazing that one had landed in our yard in Indiana, over 800 miles away.
3 weeks later, my then husband, finds out we are to be stationed in Southern Oklahoma (USAF)... where he died 3 months later...
Cas