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"How many people do you know?"

"Know?"

"People with a connection to you. If I asked, how many names could you come up with?"

"Dunno."

"I tried it. Friends, family, coworkers. People in stores I regularly banter with. Doctors, dentist, that guy that stands outside the library..."

"Sidewalk Joe."

"Around three hundred. Ran out of names around three hundred."

"Seems like a lot."

"But it really isn't. So I started counting all the people I used to know. Classmates, teachers, friends I briefly made while living abroad. People my parents knew when I was a child. Exs of my siblings."

"What's this about?"

"Less than two thousand."

"Really?"

"Indeed. Take all of the people I've met whom I can vaguely put a name to and there's less than two thousand faces."

"So?"

"I just read that Ohio Stadium seats 102,000. If you kicked everyone I've ever known out of that stadium on gameday, no one would notice."

"Again, so?"

"Just gotta think I need to meet more people."