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• n  anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found
• n  an individual that one is not acquainted with
• a  being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird
• s  not known before
• a  relating to or originating in or characteristic of another place or part of the world

• What is a consequential stranger? If you look at the relationship continuum from stranger to soul mate, consequential strangers fall in that vast territory just beyond strangers .
• But only patience and painstaking matching persuaded elders to bring a stranger into their typically small, private realms.
• Why is it so uncomfortable to stand really close to a stranger? Sure, there are the potentially icky things.

• alien
• unknown
• strange
• unusual
• foreign

• acquaintance
• familiar
• native

News & Articles

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• Michigan Reflections: Falling wildly in love with a wild river
  It was a stranger to me.
  July 7, 2013 - Detroit Free Press
• Jenkins' retirement from James Rumsey 'bittersweet'
  HEDGESVILLE - No stranger to education, Vicki Jenkins was already an award-winning home economics teacher in Morgan County when she first visited the nearby James Rumsey Technical Institute at the request of then director/principal Jim Spear.
  July 7, 2013 - The Martinsburg Journal
• Stranger found in shower: 'He finally came out, wrapping a towel around him'
  A husband and wife returned to their Keizer home to find a stranger inside, and he was taking a shower.
  July 6, 2013 - WDAM-TV Hattiesburg

Quotes

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• Phil Mendelson in USA Today
  It's not a stranger to violent activity, unfortunately,said Mendelson, the chairman of the DC Council's Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary.
• Robert Gates in FOXNews
  I am no stranger to contentious confirmations, and I do not shrink from them,Gates said. "However, I have decided that at this moment in our history, the nation, our men and women in uniform and General Pace himself would not be well...