From The "Truth is Stranger Than Fiction" Department-The retired Anglican clergyman spent months wondering why everyone hailed him like a long-lost friend – albeit with the wrong name.
But the mystery was solved after Neil, 69, finally asked a shopkeeper the reason. Only then did it emerge that he is the spitting image of community stalwart John Jemison, 74, who has lived in Braintree, Essex, for half a century.
Although strangers and with a five-year age difference the pair could pass as identical twins – and they also share an astonishing number of shared interests and history.
Speaking yesterday as he sat alongside his doppelganger, Neil said: “Twice a month I would have someone pass me in the street and say ‘Hello John’.
“I brushed it off at the time but then I realised that the cafe owner always referred to me as John as well.
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http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/567571/Two-strangers-look-identical-twins
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