Writings in the Sand

Maybe there are only so many faces to go around...

I went looking for my deceased sister’s Facebook page today. No real reason, just a passing thought. It's not there. I guess one of her children took it down. I don’t understand that. I wouldn’t take down my mother’s Facebook page, if she’d had one. I wouldn’t take down the Facebook page of a great-grandmother I never met. I like to revisit the past.

But, the weird thing was what I found while looking for it.

I searched using my sister’s name and our hometown. A profile came up for someone with that first name and our town as a surname. Think something like “Susan Plainville”. The profile pic looked a little like my sister - long blonde hair - but the weirdest thing was a photo on her page. The caption said “family time” and there were four people in the photo, three of whom are pretty good doppelgangers for members of my family. Oh, the ages were a bit off. For instance, my niece’s double looked about 12 and she's now in her 40s. But my daughter’s lookalike and her best friend/cousin were about the right age. It was weird to be staring at a photo of my family on a Facebook page belonging to someone who has the same name as my sister - almost.

The world is full of so many weird coincidences. Some of them fuel some really fine conspiracy theories. Some are a little unsettling. I think this was the latter. Kind of like a glitch in the Matrix.