Serendipity/Synchronicity

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After I posted something about synchronicity a few weeks ago, I got a short email from a reader, asking, "Instead of synchronicity, don't you actually mean serendipity? Don't both words mean discovery?"

I had heard of the word, serendipity, but I also had the notion the two were only vaguely related.

It was my understanding, serendipity was finding someth…