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Michelle was flying from Houston to London, and during the flight, she began talking to John, the man in the seat next to her. She found out that he was    of a famous jeans company based in Texas, in fact, she was wearing a pair of blue jeans from his company! But that wasn’t the most    thing. He had lived in San Francisco when he was in high school, and it    that he knew Michelle’s best friend, who also grew up in San Francisco! They continued talking. And    the trip, they felt that they had known each other for much longer than eight hours.