Yes, It Happens

Today at Costco a woman stepped around a corner to where I was standing and did a quick inhale.

"Oh," she said, "I thought I just saw my mother as I walked around this corner."

"Sorry," I said.

"But, of course," she continued, "my mother has been gone for a couple of years. It's just you're about her height and your hair is like hers, maybe not so white. But it's the kind of thing that happens sometimes."

"I understand." And I do, for sure.