Friday, January 20, 2012

Six Degrees of Separation - Part 2

Last summer, it was learned that a colleague of mine at the Library was connected in a very convoluted way to the fathers of my husband's brother's nieces. All of these folks are from Iran. One of the nieces lives in Sweden and the other (her sister) lives in Denmark. Their husbands are cousins (their fathers are brothers.) Another brother of these two fathers lives in California and is friends of a man whose wife works at the Library. The brothers all met in Italy and the idea that the person who works at the Library might know me was raised by our niece who lives in Sweden. I did not know her, but I investigated the possibility, and she acknowledged she was indeed that person. We never met face to face, but there is an on line directory- and we both must have looked at it because this week we met in the hall and asked if we might be Lois and Zoya. And there was the connection! The cute thing about it is that she works in the Middle Eastern Division which was relocated to my floor during a renovation. We agreed to meet for coffee and learn more about this connection. What will be even more interesting is that her friends from California will be visiting in the spring- and we are hoping to get together and see where this takes us. The main reason is because my husband is from the same city as all these brothers, and we are convinced that they must have known his brother. We actually met their grandfather there about 15 years ago because they were all in the same business as my husband's family and worked in the same neighborhood bazaar. Who would have guessed? I doubt if this would have happened anywhere else!
It's a long story- California, Iran, Italy, Denmark, Sweden & DC
are strangely connected

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