Your True Tales
July 2008 - Page 13
Grandma's Doppelganger
by Andrew Litterer
This story is about my grandma, Dixie. In 1979, when my grandma was 40, she was walking down the street in Waterloo, Iowa, when she passed by someone who looked just like her. She stopped and turned around and the other person was starring at her too. They looked at each other for a few moments and then both went there separate ways because they were with other people.
About two weeks later, Dixie's friend Margaret asked her to go golfing with her. Dixie said she couldn't go and Margaret found someone else, but while she was there she thought she saw "Dixie" and waved and said hi. The doppelganger snuffed her and walked away.
The next time Dixie and Margaret saw each other, Margaret wouldn't talk to her and after Dixie's constant asking her what was wrong, Margaret told her that she had seen her at the golfing course with someone else when she said she couldn't go with her. Dixie said she wasn't there and could prove it, but Margaret was to upset and wouldn't talk to her.
Eventually, Margaret started to talk to here again and they became friends again, although she still believed it was Dixie that she saw at the golf course.
About two years after this experience, my grandma was reading the newspaper when she saw a picture of herself in it, but she had never gotten the picture taken and the caption wasn't about her. To this day, Margaret still believes that it was Dixie she saw at the golfing course, and my grandma has that picture of her so-called doppelganger in an old album.
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