Strange coincidences in Denver

How fabulous is it that dear Hope, whom I know from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival because she came to visit her brother there, knew Patty's friend she dragged along to the reading, and that I knew Patty because at a cafe on Borany's birthday in Santa Monica we chatted her up, which lead to an invitation to her daughter-in-law's bookstore in Manhattan Beach, and Patty's friend Mo had been to Bhutan, and Alison from Brooklyn's friend Jane lives here and came out to Tattered Cover and knew Michael our friend from high school.