Five Decades of Doppelgangers

I: in the 70s At sixteen, looking through a magazine, I came across the picture of a girl whose character was Mary Ellen in “The Waltons” show I watched on Thursday nights. Her look was that of mine when I made up my face and styled my hair a certain way. It gave me pleasure seeing someone who was somewhat famous - looking just like me! And so I clipped that picture out and saved it in a scrapbook of my memories. II: in the 80s Inside a bank I stood in line one day. Ahead of me I saw a child who stood beside a woman and I felt a shock. The little girl looked like my five-year-old. In fact, she looked so much like Angela, I had to ask the lovely lass her name, ascertaining that kid was not my own! How very strange to see a thing like that. III: in the 90’s My husband had a doppleganger who lived somewhere in our own vicinity, for three times Joe was in a hardware store and was approached by people thinking he was someone else, a framer too, it seems. I wish that Joe had learned this fellow’s name and wonder if today they look same and if his look-alike was also forced to find another line of work to do! IV: in the new millennium I also have a doppleganger in this area. A few times I’ve been told I look just like another woman, but the time that made me feel sixteen again was when my chiropractor told me that the structure of my face and how I looked was like Mcdonnell’s, star in the best film of Kevin Costner‘s. She had played a Sioux. Her name is Mary, like the character I thought I’d looked liked from the Walton show! V: now I have a doppleganger here at Soup, except we do not look that much alike. She’s fairly young and I am (almost) old, but nearly everything she says to me reminds me of myself; however, she writes free verse and is wackier than me! She’s more my doppleganger spiritually, and if you cannot guess who she might be, I’ll give a clue: she likes to change her name here at the Soup, a thing I doubt I’d do! For Matt Caliri's Doppelgangers contest