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> Unless one of those people is my cousin Charlene

The GP's statement can be reworded as a kept secret implies at most one living person knows it. Leaked secrets aren't counter-examples to the GP's statement.

Assuming Charlene isn't a murderer or a ghost (i.e. all of her secrets involve one of the parties being dead), she reinforces the GP's implicit point that it's very difficult to keep a conspiracy a secret unless one of the conspirators ensures all of the other conspirators die off shortly after.



> Assuming Charlene isn't a murderer or a ghost

Honestly it's a coin toss


Or only one. As an example.




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