Have you ever wondered if there is someone out there that looks almost exactly like you (also known as doppelgangers – your long lost twin, a mirror image of yourself)? Well, I was browsing the internet as usual and came across a forum topic about the loss of $7B of France’s second largest bank by a rogue trader named Jerome Kerviel. I clicked on the link and that directed me to a video hosted by CNN. And somewhere in the middle of the almost two minutes length of the video, I see the face of a man who appears similar to a young lad I’ve dated in the past.
AND, the weird part was that prior to settling down for what would be another restful night, I had decided to pull out two of my old computer towers to see if I could retrieve more archives for much review and some kicks. So in I go after hooking up the wires in the back of the first tower. And good thing the data for the e-mail was intact! I managed to open up each e-mail item (one by one) for a total of 150 and saved those as text files (.txt).
Then I saved those text files in a new folder, which I later transferred to my portable disk. The only way to print out the e-mails was to hook the disk back to my primary computer. This is such a hassle and I will need to learn how to hook up both the former and current towers. The second tower was a dud and I put both old ones back into the closet. I was trying to determine two important dates and found that both were dated back in September 1998, the last time I would see the brat.
There are other men whose faces are strikingly similar to the guys I’ve dated in the past. I often wonder what had happened to those dudes but never bothered finding out as this is how some friendships end for me – quietly and without so much as a fight to remember. Perhaps there is some sort of cloning technology or mass breeding by the same parent that has been going on without us knowing at all.
Below (and in no particular order) are some public figures as comparisons to the ones whose faces I could match closely. Unfortunately, some of my fondest memories have been forgotten and cannot be included in this list.
J. E. Morales
A. P. Cunanan
D. H. Petraeus
D. H. Safavian
Addendum 03-21-2009 10:00AM: Chef Gordon Ramsay (hehe)
Disclaimer: Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Oh! And for the curious, my doppelganger happens to be a mixture between the cute version of Ugly Betty behind eyeglasses and the wide feature of Roseanne with attitude, only without the high bridged noses! For those who knew of other pictures from my now defunct weblogsites, touché!
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