Anneke de Yong
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The late afternoon of January 23, 2010 I was savoring the delight of my first day back in Amsterdam and enjoying a beer at the Myrabelle. Sitting at the bar for several minutes on the same stool the gentleman was sitting on in my October 2006 photo (back), a woman slipped behind me, sat at the bar to my right and ordered a cup of tea. Casually I glanced over at her and received a jolt; she reminded me of and I thought looked like the lady I had photographed exactly there some two plus years before. After several minutes of studying her profile and quietly taking the photo above, I began pondering what to do and, in the end, thinking what does it matter? Finally, reasoning now or forever wonder, I said excuse me and told her of my website photo and asked if the photo could be her. She said that, over the years, from time to time she had come into the Myrabelle, and after we chatted a while we both agreed that the coincidence was true. It was her and the gentleman is a friend. She allowed me to photograph her again (below) as a tram goes by outside on Vijzelstraatt. Voilà!
