It was from a New Zealand exchange student who was in one of my marketing classes last year. It read... "I met your doppelganger last night"...
NOW: As a journalist, I like to think that I have a pretty descent vocabulary. But I honestly had NO idea what the world "doppelganger" meant! Hoping the dude wasn't trying to pull something awkward or sexual, (he seemed normal!?), I quickly typed the word into Google. This is what I found on Wikipedia...
Doppelganger: In the vernacular, the word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person.
Once I realized that this dude had met my look-alike, (not my she-male ex-cousin half-removed), I felt much better! Here's a picture of my doppelganger that Evan from New Zealand sent me...
SO... what do you all think? Is she my long-lost twin!?
I came across your blog from Miss Red's and I just had to say: I had no idea what doppelganger meant until a month ago! My first reaction was...that sounds like a dirty word that I really don't care to know much more about.
ReplyDeleteAnd she may just be your long-lost twin!
ahh oh gosh! how crazy is it that you've found someone who looks like you?! i remember learning about doppelgangers in an English class some years ago.
ReplyDeletethanks for your nice words about my blog, and yes, i will be a freshman at dartmouth in the fall =)
I actually live in South Bay, about an hour away from SF. But I think it's a perfect place to be! Just an hour and half by train, so close enough to make trips and visit whenever I want. Unfortunately, I'll be going back to school in Chicago soon, so just soaking in the Bay Area for a few more weeks!
ReplyDeleteI have two other guys here locally where I live that look almost exactly like me. One of them even goes by the same nickname of J.T. Anyway, our plan is to have one of us acting obnoxiously in a bar while the other two rob a bank. If one of us gets picked up, there is a plausible deniability. Of course, we all share the same laziness gene apparently as we came up with this idea some twenty years ago and still have done nothing. Probably a good thing as I am not acclimated towards prison life and am very picky about my food and being traded for a carton of Luckies.
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