Six Degrees of Separation
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And my skis.
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And my TV.
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- Will you press charges?
- No.

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It's a felony.
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- Why do they want to find him?
- They say to help him.

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If there's a crime,
the cops will get involved.

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We really must keep in touch. We were
really good friends for a brief bit in school.

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- Really good.
- Won't you press charges?

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Oh, please.
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Can you believe it?
Paul learned all that in three months.

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Who'd have thought it? Trent Conway,
the Henry Higgins of our time.

1:07:45
Paul must have looked at all those names
in that book and said "I am Columbus."

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"I am Magellan.
I will sail into this new world."

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I read somewhere that
everybody on this planet

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is separated by only six other people.
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Six degrees of separation between us
and everyone else on this planet.

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The president of the United States, a
gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names.

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I find that extremely comforting
that we're so close,

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but... I also find it like Chinese water
torture that we're so close,

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because you have to find the right
six people to make the connection.

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It's not just big names, it's anyone.
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A native in a rainforest,
a Tierra del Fuegan, an Eskimo.

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I am bound - you are bound -
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to everyone on this planet
by a trail of six people.

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It's a profound thought.
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How Paul found us.
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How to find the man whose son he claims
to be, or perhaps is. Although I doubt it.


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