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Outlook Weekend: Is it Really You?

Two incredible personal stories of chance encounters and their life changing consequences

Sulome Anderson was born in 1985 three months after her father, journalist Terry Anderson, was taken hostage in Beirut. Sulome has gone on to become a journalist herself reporting from Beirut like her father. But, last year she experienced a remarkable coincidence when a seemingly routine interview turned out to be the start of an unforeseen relationship with her father's captor.

When Bangladeshi blogger Asif Mohiuddin found himself in prison for his writing, he had an encounter with the man who had tried to kill him just months before.

Photo: Security personnel at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
Credit: Tim Boyle/Newsmakers/Getty Images.

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