As if “Dates with Destiny” (Geist 67) didn’t speak to coincidence eagerly enough, I stumbled upon it during my waitressing shift. Wouldn’t you know it—at the moment I flipped through No. 67, the word Fiume jumped out to meet me—the short-lived city Fiume, my own father’s birthplace.

In “Dates with Destiny” (Geist 67), Daniel Francis meets Elio, whose father made a torpedo in a factory that sunk a ship carrying Francis’s mother-in-law; thus Daniel says to Elio: “So, your father tried to kill my wife’s mother.” Canadian taxpayers pay for weapons, ammunition and soldiers that are used in the Afghan “mission”; in this way of thinking, each and every one of us is personally responsible for the killing of Afghan fathers and sons.