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D is for Doppelganger.....

Oi....my time/energy is running short today, so the post for letter D isn't getting as much attention as I would have liked---- but, such is life Doppelganger, a supernatural phenomenon most people are familiar with--- essentially a person's double (sometimes considered their alter-ego, sometimes considered a portent of bad times, sometimes considered the harbinger of death). The name comes from the German loanword, Doppelganger (doppel= double ... ganger= walker). The story we've all heard since childhood is that everybody has a twin somewhere in the world. And, if you subscribe to the notion of there being an infinite number of universes, then, it might even be safe to assume that there are several copies and/or versions of yourself in other universes out there---though, let's not talk about the doubles made of moon-cheese. Look Once, Look Twice See me here, See me there, See my doubles walking everywhere. Here I am, There I go, You...