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My parents went to Nebraska back in the mid 70's and they knew exactly one guy in Beta Theta Pi...fast forward 30 years later and I end up befriending this girl on my then girlfriend's dorm floor. Start talking to her and find out her dad is a Beta, which I thought was cool (until like every 5th girl tells me that her dad was a Beta).
Thanksgiving rolls around and I'm talking to my parents about this girl and somehow it clicks that her dad was that one Beta they knew. When I think about it I'm amazed b/c she just as easily could have been someone that I met at a party and never got far enough along to even remember her last name and yet we some how managed to meet and become decent friends.
Another one happened in late spring of my senior year of HS, back in KC. Nebraska was playing in the College World Series and I was working at Panera Bread. Guy comes in wearing a Nebraska ballcap, and I said something like "You should be at home watching the game, that's what I'd be doing." We get to talking about Nebraska and he asks why I'm a fan, and I explain that both my parents are from there, what HS they went to and such. Turns out that he graduated the same year as my dad from that HS, and more than that, they had gone to the same catholic elementary and middle schools, and been fairly good friends. That was pretty weird.
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