Similarities

Two peas in a pod, father and son, mother and daughter, volkswagen bugs, grasshoopers; the world is full of things that may look alike,taste alike, or even smell alike.  I've heard it said that somewhere in the world every person has a look alike.  How often have you heard a familiar voice and, when you turned to greet them, that voice belonged to a total stranger.  Often I have seen people I know walking down the street ahead of me, perhaps even wearing the correct clothes but I know it is not that person becauseI went to their funeral a few months ago.   

 I have been approached by person's who grabbed my hand and told me how glad they were to see me and ask me how some person was doing, then they discovered I was a stranger to them.  Did you ever just pretend to be that person?  It might be fun.  I wonder how many of my relatives and close friends would be angered at such a pretense.   I hope no one is because I have practiced a little deception. 

Several times I my life I have been mistaken for a fairly prominent person.  I never saw any resemblance and never considered that mistake to be a compliment although we did have certain things in common.  We both liked the same woman.  We both picked a guitar and tried to sing.  Be that as it may be, since he was pretty well known, one lady and her daughter approached me in a store with a little notebook and pen in hand and insisted on my autograph.  I tried to tell them the truth; their mind was made up.  As the two of us grew older, I started to see a little similarity and, one day, I decided to play a little trick, practice a little deception, and see if it was just the imagination of a few.  I am attaching two pictures and I'll let you decide.  I don't think Johnny will mind, even if I did like to hear June sing before he ever met her.  Today was my day to deceive.