A startling resemblance

Marilyn asked me what I was wearing to her college’s endowment banquet. This year’s theme was a Hawai’ian luau.

I had planned to wear Hubby’s Hawai’ian shirt or my own flowered polo shirt.

She said, “I have a pair of flowered polo shirts. We could go as twins.”

I thought that would be fun. After all, we consider each other to be sisters. No other description seems to fit.

However, the only biological relatives in our five-girlfriend group are Patty and Marilyn, who are cousins. The rest of us don’t share the same ancestry. Donna and Kathy have been best friends for 20-plus years. They are often mistaken for blood sisters, but we didn’t see a resemblance between the rest of us.

That is, we didn’t until we saw this picture Tuesday. When Marilyn sent me this picture, I couldn’t believe what was in my inbox. Where did this resemblance originate?

I don’t know, but we agree that it’s there.