Source:
Adults
Author:
Rhona Aitken
Title:
The Doppelganger
It was the angle of his hat;a hat bought in more youthful days when buying jaunty loden was a laugh. But this was not that hat, this was not that laughing man. This was some other, just as once a pair of wind-swept shoppers under a familiar umbrella made me utter long-forgotten names, when, of-course, their presence was not possible. Sometimes the glimpse of a yellow shirt, tweed jacket, mottled scarf can give my still bruised heart a stricken lurch. Some ghost perhaps? No - just a doppelganger. A doppelganger with no knowledge that he is one - or that his presence has become the shade of someone past - for a brief moment. Just a brief moment.The
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