In a message dated 2/8/2000 4:55:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< Here's a try at a sentence:  I have a propinquity to me mother, but not to
 my brothers. >>

Dear Popeye (or Andy Capp),

That works for the biological relationship sense, but was I was trying to
figure out was how to use "propinquity" to connote physical proximity. I.e.,
is something "in propinquity?"  One doesn't say that a thing is
propinquitous, although "propinquitous" seems more useful than "propinquity."

What say our Sharpshooting Shaman the Pirate and others considered the
literary elite among Pinheads?

Ralph