the guy who looks like either an identical twin or a very, very similar-looking brother

i looked at martin's pictures on facebook. i was able to do that because he sent me a message on facebook instead of to the email address that i had originally given him. if you send someone a message on facebook, it temporarily opens up your profile to the recipient so that they can look at it. i assume that he did this knowingly and that he was capable of sending to my regular email address if he had chosen to. for a few days i didn't realize i was able to look at the pictures - i thought i could only view the profile page with the couple lines of text on it.

i didn't really decide on my own that the guy was an identical twin - instead, i wrote a couple comments that sort of hinted at it or asked about it, but i hadn't decided for sure. it was when i went to sleep and woke up that i was hearing somebody telling me that yes, he did look like an identical twin, and they were wearing the same jackets in one picture. (however, it's possible they were both wearing jackets that signified membership in a group, a uniform of some kind, and i just couldn't see what the group was. but it looked like 'twins wearing the same clothes.')

so actually i am not really sure. there was only one photo where i could clearly see them both together in the same photo. however, they weren't straight-faced - they were making funny faces (i couldn't tell what was going on - it looked like a bumper cars ride or something, where they had on seat belts) so i didn't get to see both of them side by side with a neutral facial expression, but instead, they are both making different expressions in the picture. in the picture with the different facial expressions, it isn't obvious that they are identical twins, but instead, they could just be two very similar-looking brothers, or fraternal twins who are the same age and look a lot alike.

that might explain why i originally saw this one other photo he had and it looked like somebody else, not him. it looked ALMOST like him, but not quite.

and, it might explain something else weird that i noticed a long time ago, but i didn't think anything of it. when i first started working at the store, there were two guys who looked a lot alike, but eventually, i decided it was the same guy, except he sometimes wore glasses, and sometimes didn't. i decided it was just the glasses and that i had been confused because i didn't know anybody in that department. but it would be weird if they were both employed in the same store for a while, except he doesn't seem to be there anymore.

i don't have any idea what his name is, and i didn't see them together in lots of pictures, just one. also, i didn't read anywhere in his blog any mention of a brother. it makes me doubt it and i wonder if he is just some friend who happens to have a strong resemblance to martin, at least in the one photo. when i look at the picture again, they actually don't look the same anymore - they look quite different. the more i look at it, the more different they look.

'well, just another mystery,' is all i can say.