I got a phone call from my girlfriend but when I answered it wasn’t her. It was, to my best guess, two older women having a conversation about someone they knew coming to visit them. It lasted 15 seconds and then the call dropped. Immediately after I got a phone call from my gf again and this time it was actually her saying she had been trying to get a hold of me. Did I intercept someone’s call? What happened here?

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