What happened when two strangers went on vacation together
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Rodrigo Leal and Irma Cáceres worked at the same company in Mexico City for two years before they crossed paths. When they finally met, it wasn't at an office-wide meeting, or while making coffee in their workplace kitchen -- it was to plan an international vacation together.
(CNN) — Rodrigo Leal and Irma Cáceres were working at the same company in Mexico City for two years before they crossed paths. And when they finally met, it wasn't at an office-wide meeting, or while making coffee in their workplace kitchen -- it was to plan an international vacation together. It was the spring of 2011 and 31-year-old Rodrigo was looking forward to visiting family in Finland later that year.
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