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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Old-Vermicelli-5056 on 2026-06-21 13:04:54+00:00.

I was walking around the public garden in Boston today and I saw this guy who looked *exactly* like my brother. He was even wearing the same types of clothes my brother wears. I have never seen somebody look so much like somebody else before. It was very jarring.

I wanted to tell him he looked like my brother, but I felt like that would be too creepy, so I just stood off a little ways away and covertly took a picture of him to show to the rest of my family later....

A few hours later, I saw the same guy again on the other side of town! I thought it was too much of a coincidence to ignore, so I went over to him and told him he looked exactly like my brother, and I asked him where he was from, what his last name was, etc. He was polite, but didn't seem to care too much. I pulled out my phone to show him a picture of my brother, but for some reason the wires in my brain got crossed, and I brought up the picture I had taken of *him* in the public garden earlier in the day! Ignorant of my mistake, I held my phone up and proudly showed it to him, smiling. He looked at it, frowning, and muttered, "but that's..."

And then for like 10 seconds we just stood there staring wide-eyed at each other.

Tl;dr I took a picture of a stranger, and then inexplicably showed it to them hours later.