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I understand that's the theory, but these situations were specifically not something that could be easily gleaned. We're talking like reminiscing about things that happened in our pre internet youth that there's no record of anywhere and that came up randomly in conversation. I'm definitely aware of the dynamic, even before ubiquity of the internet, it's true that sometimes companies would know people were pregnant before the person did based on their purchasing profile. This wasn't that though, there's just no possible connection.
That happened a few times now, so pretty much nothing is going to convince me it's not the case.