An incredible coincidence

My research got stuck in a hole, and in desperation I emailed a grad student who had already graduated from the group for help. He's already a Post-doc at Stanford, but to my amazement, he told me that he's right here at Ithaca! Apparently, he decided to come back for a short visit, and I just happened to email him at this time. The coincidence is nothing short of incredible.

Fate works in strange ways, it seems.