Saturday, October 21, 2006

Doppelganger

Have you ever met the doppelganger of someone you know?

I did once. I was in New Orleans for spring break, and my waiter at dinner one night had the exact personality of my older brother. It was like crashing into a parallel universe, where the person is the same but the life he is born into is completely different.

And today, I met another: the sixtyish doppelganger of one of my high school friends. She was teaching my Red Cross class, and was telling us about her collection of fifty pairs of cartoon character slippers. So I feel as if now I know exactly what my friend is going to be like when she is sixty years old.

I wonder if I have any doppelgangers out there, and what their lives are like.

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