Hi George-
Rather than trying to see if these are the same person, it might be easier to view them as similar, just as leaves from the same branch of the Tree of Life will be similar.

Your lifeline passes through the space in which your personal karma has somehow selected these similarities. There might be more, as well. (You'll get the full explanation in another 10 or 20 years, I suspect.) In the meantime, it's kinda like all school busses are yellow, and they're very similar, but that's because we happen to live in a  space where that's true, not because they're the same bus.

Such similarities are more common than most of us realize, since we socially select people our own age, and any two people have one chance in twelve of being born in the same month. If you're looking for your wife, rather than looking for her to reappear as another person, she's far more likely to be hanging around your house, perhaps feeling a bit undressed without her body, but still interested in the same things etc, and still in love with you.  If you call for her, she may well talk to you in your dreams, move things in the house, and otherwise make herself known.

Love never dies, it just keeps growing.
dave

George:

I'm glad you have an old friend to share your thoughts with.  Sometimes coincidences feel like someone knocking on the door to your heart, don't they?  Enjoy your time together!  Who really knows what the truth is about these things anyway? 

love, blink