I had the strangest dream last night

happened again this week. a work colleague of mrs cu has condition that requires surgery. doctors were telling her about the chances of full recover etc etc and she was obviously discussing this at work. mrs cu came home and in the course of the evening mentioned her work colleague. I remembered a work colleague of mine whose girlfriend had the same symptons, about 30 years ago. shes still alive and well and he's deceased. that was on monday of this week. yesterday bumped into a former workmate and we had a 10 minute chat. see this fella fairly regulary, ( had drinks just before Christmas with him)so you can imagine my surprise when he just announced that xxxxx is dead 20 years this year. he had no reason whatsoever to say it, and in all the times we have met in the past he has never mentioned xxxx. weird.