6 Degrees Of Separation?

[Shawn]

Is everyone familiar with this? The idea being that every person on earth can be connected to any other person on earth by connecting a trail of 6 people. To me it sounds fantastic, but....

My wife's family and history is somewhat prominent. To say that mine is not might be an understatement. So I thought to try and find the 6 degrees of separation between us, had we never met, might be interesting. I also thought it at least improbable, if not impossible.

but...

There is a connection. For decades, her Grandmother kept up personal correspondence with a certain man. They had met and thought the other could prove to be politically useful, as well as became friends.

One of my uncles was in the window washing business for decades. (yeah, scaling the sides of buildings) One of his favorite clients, for the man's notoriety and demeanor was the same man. He actually went each few weeks to the man's house to clean windows. Like my wife's Grandmother, he liked and came to greatly respect the man.

So really, if you count my uncle as 1 step from me, and my wife's grandmother as one step away from her, the man in the middle proves to be only the 3rd degree of separation. So there are 4 degrees between my wife and myself.

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Just a side note, the man in the middle in this case was the only person in most Saskatchewan resident's memories to achieve national acclaim on the political scale.

Former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.

[DudeAsInCool]

The New Yorker did a further study. Usually there are a number of go-to people who somehow have the roller decks to connect to those other five people. I'm one of those people. For whatever reason, I could stay home all day, but inevitably I will meet new people...