debra posed a question stating that there are millions (billions) of people we can never know or touch, however there is a theory that states that we are not really so far apart...
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5325100.html
In 1967, the sociologist Stanley Milgram conducted the first recorded experiments on social connectivity using post cards in the United States. Despite the crudity of the experiment, and the tardiness of the participants, he recorded a median number of 5.5 degrees of separation. Round up and we see the start of "six degrees of separation."
I personally know a son of John Lennon, people that work for Paul Allen, and the royal Family of Monaco! To paraphrase JL..."Imagine all the people"!
"No man is an island" (John Donne)
2006-10-20
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