I can see people who know each other meeting up accidentally in a big city. It happens a lot.
My best friend, Kay Fry, used to be involved in DS fandom until 1986. Up until that time, she met a lot of DS people and afterwards, when fans would come to my house, met more. One of them was Dale Clark, a long time DS fan in Texas who published a fanzine Inside the Old House (or something like that).
Anyway, Kay went down to Dallas to attend a conference for the company she was working for. One afternoon she decided to leave the hotel during a conference break and walk around the gardens. There was Dale Clark giving an informal lecture to a group of people on raising butterflies. That's what he does for a living - raise, sell and lecture on butterflies. They couldn't believe they were seeing each other under such completely random circumstances.
nancy