Real Life: All You Need?

Real life can be so funny sometimes, that you don't really need fiction. If the American Revolution were a story, and it's leading figures were characters, no novelist would dare have had John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die on the 50th anniversary of the official American announcement of independence. But amazingly that's what happened. One can look at this phenomenon in a million different ways, wouldn't you agree? Can a coincidence really be that massive, or is it true that there really are no coincidences? And every detail makes the event eerier and eerier: these two became close (initially) serving together at the Continental Congress (and were on the committee to draft the Declaration!!). If Thomas Jefferson and James Madison had died on the fourth, it wouldn't have been the same thing. And what of Benjamin Rush's dream (or divine prophecy?) in 1809 that the these "north and south poles of the American Revolution" would reconcile, discuss and debate their respective takes on the meaning of the Revolution, and perish at a similar time? It's all so unbelievable that is must be true.