"I'm from hither. It's just South of thither."
"Oh, you must know X and Y!"
And it's true surprisingly often. The travelling tanguero will enjoy the 'where are you from' question frequently, and will enjoy watching the most unexpected of connections reveal themselves as the conversation continues.
I enjoy returning home and being able to say to someone that they're known and remembered in a different town, county, country, continent. Some people are hubs for these connections. Some people seem to know everyone. Or if they don't know everyone, everyone knows them.
And the world shrinks a little with each new connection.
Various studies have suggested that there are, on average, roughly six degrees of separation between every person on the planet and every other person on the planet.
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