Supposedly we are all separated by six degrees. But I sometimes
wonder if we may be more closely related than we realize?
The reason why I make this point is an experience of mine. One of my
former co-workers told me that she had no relatives out here. We had
worked in the same place for about two years. One day I mentioned a
certain uncle from a certain part of Hawaii. She said she had a
relative by the same name from that same part.
Later I wrote to my uncle�s son, that is my cousin. He wrote back
that he had a cousin and that cousin had a daughter. I showed the
message to my former co-worker. It turns out my former co-worker was
that daughter.
I am not sure what that makes us. I thought the term was second
cousin. But someone said it was first cousins once removed. So I
guess we are sort of related. Her mother and myself share the same
first cousin from different ends of his family.
And what makes this a smaller world is that my cousins remember this
co-worker. And one of my aunts was a friend of this former co-worker�s
grandmother. But I didn�t know any of this till I asked my cousin.
And that is what started the whole ball of wax rolling. Sometimes we
don�t realize what a small world it is.
Guy
# posted by GuyTak @ 8:15 PM
