Me and Sarah Palin

A man came in to my office the other day and almost immediately asked, "Who do you look like?

I asked what he meant and he explained, "You look familiar. Who do people say you look like? Oh, I know: Sarah Palin."

She's known as a "beauty queen". From what I've read about her, she was in the running for the pageant title of Miss Alaska, but didn't win. Still, a nice comparison, I thought. (After all, he did say "look like", not "sound like", "act like", or "share the political views of".)

I mentioned it to my husband later. He seemed skeptical. "Were you wearing your glasses at the time?"

Well, I was, but still... Let's not be hasty in dismissing the whole "beauty" thing, ok?

And no, I wasn't wearing my hair in the infamous Sarah Palin-style "up do" at the time, so... Yes, I'm sure it's the "beauty" thing.

My husband thinks Sarah Palin has a generic quality and insists that any similarities are purely coincidental.

By the way, I'm the one on the left.
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