You've heard of 7 degrees of seperation?
Well, basically, while Murphy didn't get you in his insidious plot to gradually creep the first day of school up on your birthday, he did manage to get a bunch of poor shmucks born real close to you their Senior year.
So, in the end, while you didn't get completely diddled, calender-wise, you ended up only 2 or 3 degrees of seperation from those who did, proving, simaltaneously, that while we all may be diddled it's how much the diddle-or gets out of it that matters, and that, in the end, Murphy's favorite target, we are all one.....