| Connections puzzle | Bob’s movie | John’s book |
| My husband and I are both big fans of coincidences and of words. So, imagine our delight when the word “séance” appeared three times in one day. On Wednesday, 10/29/25, the purple category for the NYT’s Connection puzzle was “Words starting with the ‘say’ sound”: SACRUM, SEITAN, SEYCHELLES, and SÉANCE. | On that same day, my husband Bob — who is an avid movie watcher and who rates and writes a 10-word summary and a 6-word review for each — was watching Count Yorga, Vampire, and his summary of the 1970 movie was: “Friends learn handsome séance medium is vampire; vampire shenanigans ensue.” | On that same day, I was reading my 99th book of 2025, The Lost Husband, in which one of the characters fancies herself as having the ability to speak with the dead and offers to do a séance with another character whose husband had died a couple of years previously. |
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