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From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.net-people,net.misc
Subject: Small World Experiences
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Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 10:34:35 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 21 10:34:35 1984
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I was wondering how many others have had the experience of remeeting
old friends, classmates, etc. by way of spotting a familiar name on a
news article header or something like that.

For example, this is pulled out of a note I received a few weeks ago...

	>  Just read your remarks about Hemo the Magnificent in
	>net.movies.  If you are the Fred Avolio [...]  Anyway, you
	>mentioned The Restless Sea.  I think I saw that one in Mr.
	>Cohen's Earth Science class.  Is that where you saw it?
	>               [...]
	>  This is the second time I got to pull the stunt of
	>surprising someone from my past.  On net.ai a few months
	>back, a friend from grad school submitted a gag entry [...]
	>I was sure it was the same guy, because he even mentioned
	>his dog by name.  So I sent back a reply [...] I hadn't seem
	>him in about 5 years.  You've got that beat, easy, without
	>even mentioning your dog.

I had last seen this guy in June of 1973 at high school graduation.
Found out he even works for the same company as I do now, although in
different states (he in the state of confusion, I in disorientation).
-- 
Fred Avolio, DEC -- Ultrix Applications Center
301/731-4100 x4227
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