look alikes...

[blackribbon]

Have you ever seen one?

I sat in a different part of my lecture room on Friday. It was odd because I met a number of people I had never seen before. I looked up to start taking notes and realized the guy in front of me was the spitting image of a guy I had dated...subtract a few years (I've seen pictures). His body shape was the same, his hair was the same, and his face was almost the same...minus the wrinkles that go with losing your wife to cancer and the receding hair line. HUGE distraction because I wanted to reach out and touch one of his curls (curly hair). I hope I didn't creep him out because I know he caught me looking at him more than once. I was so glad when class was over and he had an entirely different voice. I took a long time packing up to that I could connect the voice with this face so I don't make a fool of myself if we ever end up in a clinical together. I wish I knew his name so I could start connect that with him too in order to separate the two men in my mind.

I have a widow friend who owns and runs a chiropractor office. There is a new client that her staff now lets her know when he is coming in so she can mentally prepare because he is the spitting image of her dead husband...only with blue eyes instead of brown. She said she almost past out the first time she saw him. She now understands why she keeps seeing "her husband" driving around town.

I understand when people look similar...but it is weird when people that know someone intimately are freaked out. Anyone else have similar experiences? I know if I am as shaken up by seeing a former boyfriend, I'd be a mess if I saw "my husband" walking around and married to someone else.

 

[exitstageright]

Have you ever seen one?

I sat in a different part of my lecture room on Friday. It was odd because I met a number of people I had never seen before. I looked up to start taking notes and realized the guy in front of me was the spitting image of a guy I had dated...subtract a few years (I've seen pictures). His body shape was the same, his hair was the same, and his face was almost the same...minus the wrinkles that go with losing your wife to cancer and the receding hair line. HUGE distraction because I wanted to reach out and touch one of his curls (curly hair). I hope I didn't creep him out because I know he caught me looking at him more than once. I was so glad when class was over and he had an entirely different voice. I took a long time packing up to that I could connect the voice with this face so I don't make a fool of myself if we ever end up in a clinical together. I wish I knew his name so I could start connect that with him too in order to separate the two men in my mind.

I have a widow friend who owns and runs a chiropractor office. There is a new client that her staff now lets her know when he is coming in so she can mentally prepare because he is the spitting image of her dead husband...only with blue eyes instead of brown. She said she almost past out the first time she saw him. She now understands why she keeps seeing "her husband" driving around town.

I understand when people look similar...but it is weird when people that know someone intimately are freaked out. Anyone else have similar experiences? I know if I am as shaken up by seeing a former boyfriend, I'd be a mess if I saw "my husband" walking around and married to someone else.

About just two weeks after my mother-law passed away,my second wife and I were at a resturant in Jack London Square,in Oakland,Ca. My ex was facing me at the table. At the table,across from us, facing me,was the lady,who could have been K's twin sister. This lady was about the same age as my mother-in law. She had the same grayish-white hair,with the same hair style,and had the same figure,and hieght,as my mother-in-law.

I made the wise choice of not saying,"Hey turn around,thet lady over there looks just like your mother!"

 

[blackribbon]

I made the wise choice of not saying,"Hey turn around,thet lady over there looks just like your mother!"

Yes, that was a very wise decision.

 

[Doctor Strangelove]

A few weeks after my father died I was across the street from a gas station and I saw a man pumping gas in his car who looked very much like my father. Even his mannerisms from what I could tell looked familiar and his clothes were something my father would wear. So I stared for a few minutes but fortunately he did not notice me.

A few years ago I saw an ad in a magizine that had a picture of Amish men in a workshop making furniture. It was an ad for Amish-made furniture. One man looked very much like my father, only a few years younger and with an Amish-style beard. If the guy in the picture was shaved he would have looked just like my father. I did think that guy in the picture could be a distant relative since my father's family came from roughly the same part of Europe the Amish came from, although we aren't Amish.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

doppleganger?

I've seen men riding Harley's that looked like my husband until of course I saw them up close. I don't think I've ever seen one, thankfully, of anyone I know or knew.