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How so?
It’s really stupid, so prepare yourself for disappointment… Consider a circle, and then identify it’s fringe. Any point on the circle is on it’s fringe. Same thing holds if all your friends joined hand-in-hand to make a circle. Every one of them is a fringe element of the circle, because that’s what a circle is.
tl;dr focus on the locus
What if they’re tight-knit, or the fabric of the community? We all have a common thread.