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[nisaba]

I meant to mention this when I posted about my leaving the UK anniversary the other day (which I got wrong by a day in the end as well

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[scatterbeetle]

I have a similar sensation, although on a wider, more generic scale.

Goths look the same the world over. And so do lesbians! It's especially disconcerting when there are roomfuls of them...

[nisaba]

Spoilt for choice? ;)

[nisaba]

That's no surprise with your username!

[nisaba]

Some of us have moved on since the 1800s ;)

[margotmetroland]

Never! you are stuck with us. Mere geography is no boundary for us!

[nisaba]

Damn you and your supernatural powers, woman!

[nils]

There are only a certain number of distinct people in the world - probably about 50 or so. Anyone else is just a copy.

[nisaba]

Ah, awesome. You knew you lot were all so replaceable?

[moral_vacuum]

We are the originals. The copies of us are all subject to replicative fading and translation faults, so will never be true replacements.

[zotz]

"There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers."

[alixandrea]

I think it's quite a common thing when you've lost someone, or feel the lack of someone. I know for ages after I stopped talking to him I kept seeing people I thought were my dad, and more recently I've seen Stef in other people. At first it seemed to be whole people that looked *just* like him; more recently it's dwindled to particular expressions or body movements in people. The sensation disappears over time, but it is disconcerting to start with!

[nisaba]

It is just like that. I've just never had it on such a grand scale before, especially as it's includes people I've barely even thought of in years, like former colleagues.

[alixandrea]

Perhaps it's because you miss the UK on a grand scale too? So your brain is showing you a pattern of everyone you ever met here. Did you get anything similar when you moved to the UK from Australia the first time?

[nisaba]

No, not really, but then I didn't live near any of my friends at the time, as most of them were already overseas or somewhere else in the country, and I wsan't near my family either. And I was young and excited and totally focused on looking forward, and didn't even think twice about missing people.