Intriguing! When I was a tour guide, it would involve a busload of participants from worlds apart, who, of course, had never previously met. Invariably, as life stories were exchanged along the way, it always turned out that someone-knew-someone's-aunt-uncle-father, etc, and a bond would begin.
Stories such as Dr. Antony's serve to polish off a layer or two of built up cynicism.
