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I had to visit a pre-school nearby to my college for my class on Speech development, basically to record the kinds of errors in speaking that little kids make. When I was buzzed the door, an older-middle aged Italian-looking woman let me in, and walked around the front desk to sign me in. Immediately, she seemed familiar to me. I swore she used to work at the front desk at my old elementary school when I was a little kid, or as an administrative worker, or something similar to that. For context, I grew up on Long Island yet my college was in upstate NY where there are far fewer Italian people etc. but also I definitely was sure that I'd seen her before.

What's a bit freaky is that *she* looked at me, and started staring / squinting at me, and then asked (I had not really said anything at all to her by this point), "Oh wait, you've been here before right? Or, were you here as a little kid too or something?"

So I was like, "Yea, no, I thought I've seen you before too, did you work at [my elementary school] on Long Island?"

But then she looked instantly confused, and said, "Hmm, no, no, I'm from around here." So then I was just like "Oh... ok, then," and she said, "Are you sure you didn't come by here for class a lot last year, maybe?" But no, legitimately that was my first time ever there. I asked, "You're sure you didn't work anywhere like on Long Island?", but no, she was sure.

So I had to get going for my project timeslot, and also I was / am pretty awkward, but we parted ways both kinda squinting like, "Are you misremembering or am I misremembering?" and both clearly confused / not sure what to think about it.

Thoughts?