Small world

Reminder on reminder this week of all the theory - six degrees of separation and all that:

• Youngest member of our family just arrived in Oklahoma goes out for dinner and meets the family doctor from her father's home town (population 1000) who recognised the family name
• In a new university in a new country (admittedly only 3-4 hours from my homeland), I meet with my clinical debriefing group for the first time, and a student says "You know my mother." Indeed I do, and the student attended the same secondary school as my daughters
  
• At the 'Blessing of the Hands' ceremony last night a man comes up and asks if we did anaesthetics together. No (I have never ever been involved in that specialty). But we were at Medical School together 30 years ago! And his daughter is starting her medical training

And not quite a small world but I Google myself and discover that, despite two unusual names, I have a namesake with the same combination. Well had a namesake really as it was her obituary that showed up. An amazing woman. Loved wife and mother. Rest in Peace Mavis.