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When I handed Dave an Akers Media business card, he immediately asked if I was from Lake County. Conchman, but I was introduced to Dave Fenimore, founder of the popular event. I was surprised to learn this very nice gentlemen formerly worked for someone in Chicago who now lives in The Villages and is a good friend of my husband.Ī week later, I was in the Turks and Caicos Isles dancing with a giant green conch at a weekly event that is a cultural street party, market-night, and fish fry all rolled into one. Since lots of traffic and a few Margaritas were going to be involved, we were fortunate one of her running buddies volunteered to drive us across town. This past summer was especially serendipitous for proving the six degrees’ theory is true.įirst, there was a trip to Atlanta to attend a Jimmy Buffett concert with a good friend and fellow Parrothead. My uncanny ability to find unlikely connections has served me well as a journalist and certainly made life interesting.
#SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION THEORY MOVIE#
A play and a movie, “Six Degrees of Separation” were released in the early 1990s, and many people who were in college then may remember the parlor game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.” The movie star even launched the charity,, in 2007 to build on the popularity of the small world phenomenon and to raise money for charities. Originally based on the 1929 short story, “Chains,” by Frigyes Karinthy, the six-degrees theory states that all people are linked by six or fewer connections.
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As time passed, she encountered more of my “connections,” leading her to the conclusion that I truly was the quintessential example of six degrees. This revelation came when she learned her son’s guitar instructor was my ex-father-in-law’s nephew-someone I barely knew. A dear friend told me years ago that I embodied the “six degrees of separation” theory more than anyone else she knew.