"He knew of me because I'd already run for office, and we shared a mutual connection to Senator Kennedy," Kerry said.
I was dumbfounded at how quickly we could recognize him and had recognized Ms. Parker, people familiar to us only from television shows and gossip columns, despite the fact that we were unable to identify someone with whom we shared a physical connection.
My father had tracked down Mr. Lloyd— and his novel — in doing research for our family archives, and while he knew that Mr. Lloyd (a great-great-great-grandson of Captain Morgan, and therefore a cousin of mine) was part of our extended biological family, none of us realized that we shared a Princeton connection as well.
We shared a definite connection.
We shared a tremendous connection, and then, with time, it was contaminated with fear...fear of commitment, and old ghosts within us came to the service.
Cosby and Constand shared a connection with Temple University.
The bear-suit guy was recruited from the "Missed Connections" book — "We shared a bear suit at an apartment party Saturday night," someone wrote of him on Craigslist — while most of the other 33 characters in the piece were inspired by straphangers she saw.
Through the ingredients on our plates, we share a common connection to the Earth and to each other.
We share a few common connections on LinkedIn, which, coupled with my reading your post on using artificial intelligence in making client service processes more efficient, inspired me to reach out, as I thought your ideas were refreshing and different.
They matter a lot, not just because we share a very personal and (hopefully) caring connection but because if only one of us is satisfied with the outcome of a interaction, we are both negatively impacted since the overall quality of trust, safety, respect, and love in the relationship has been diminished by an adversarial encounter.
