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“Better,” the young woman replied.

“If you draw a horizontal line on a sheet of paper and
then draw a perpendicular on its right side and another on

its left side, those two perpendicular will be parallel lines,
right?”

“Right.”

“And the distance between them will always be the
same, right?”

“True,” Evelyn confirmed.

“Now think you could do the same on the longest table
in the largest meeting room in the White House. That is, on

a huge table more than one hundred feet long. Well,

imagine that at one end you draw the horizontal line and the
two parallel perpendiculars. It is obvious that the distance

that separates them will be maintained at the other end of
the table, correct?”

“Correct.”

“Now let’s do virtually the same thing on the New
York Giant’s Stadium. We could imagine that the

horizontal line is one of the touchdown lines and the
perpendiculars are the sidelines. It is evident that the

distance between them will be the same in the other

touchdown line,”

“It’s obvious,” Evelyn agreed again.