Yeah it's weird when you meet someone who seems to share a lot of similar experiences to yours... I don't know what it's about really, but the word I like to use for it is "synchronicity". Do you like this woman? Maybe because you have so much in common, you are going to be great friends, almost like platonic soulmates. I have some weird similarities like that with my best friend, and also with my husband. For example, with my husband:
1. He is studying to be a neuro-psychiatrist, and that is the profession of my adopted father
2. I was raised in foster care, and his parents were foster parents who took in lots of foster children
3. He has the same birthday as my biological mother
4. Our families (on his father's side and my mother's side) originate from the same province in Romania, and lived a few miles from each other, yet never met, and here we meet up in Canada!
Etc, etc...
Sometimes I think we were meant to meet, and other times I think we were just extremely attracted to each other because of the similarities. In either event, it's really cool and you should treasure the opportunity to develop a friendship with someone who you share so much in common with. It doesn't happen often, in my experience at least.
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