Small World
At the cafe today there was a guy who, from the side, looked exactly like an ex-boyfriend of mine. I kept doing double takes. I was finally telling the guy, who from the front looks nothing like him, about how much he was creeping me out.
I just keep looking over and thinking, Why aren’t you in Chicago?
Ten minutes later, I’m at the table next to them and a girl asks me if I said I was from Chicago. She says, “I thought you looked familiar.”
Turns out - after the obligatory high school info exchange - that we’d known each other since we were kids. We were both friends with this chick Shannon, who was about my best friend during 1st and 2nd grade. We’d hung out at birthday parties, etc.
Weirdly, I just found a bunch of childhood pics on my hard drive, and Shannon was in one of them. So I went from not thinking about this girl in ages to finding her pic and meeting up with her friend halfway around the world within a couple weeks.
Thanks, creepily profile-doppleganger guy!
Oh, and a car was on fire in the alley last night. Way to defy your gentrification, Carlton.
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