I believe that encounters always make sense. Those strangers you have never met but are familiar with have a cause and effect after all. If you can remember the faces of people coming and going, there must be an inevitable connection. After a long time, you will feel that the experience is just following the script - when you meet whom, what you experience, how you appear, and how you end!
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.