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today me and my wife were out and about and while we were sitting down drinking some coffee I looked up and saw a family of three- two parents and a child- walking through the area all wearing the exact same shirt:

it was the exact same shirt, two adult sizes and a tiny baby one for the, like, four year old kid they were carrying

so I turned to my wife and pointed them out, because 1. it was really cute and mostly 2. I was wearing this

so we laugh and then i see one of the parents make eye contact, and i impulsively point at my shirt and then theirs and flash a thumbs up

at first I worried that I was being weird but they immediately turn to their spouse to say something, then point at me and they both start excitedly getting the kids attention on me. they nudge and coerce him and point at me and my shirt, smiling, but the child is too distracted by everything else in the room to notice our matching fit

eventually the parents look back at me and call out "its his favorite shirt, so we all got them to wear together" and I respond, "cool shirt, dude!" and they carry on with their day. ive never felt a stronger sense of community with complete randos and I will love them forever

The eternal human urge:

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