My Doppelg?\xA7nger?
This is a busy week for me. I've just wrapped up eating lunch at my desk, in the hopes that I can get caught up on everything, and my cell phone starts vibrating. It's a number I don't recognize but the area code is obscure enough that I decide to answer the call.
"Is this Sam Felder" is the reply to my greeting. I, in a brusque voice, return "yes, may I ask who is calling?" "Sam Felder," replies the caller, "yes, that's really my name" I'm told.
Perhaps I woke up on the wrong side of the universe this morning. Have I slipped into a world populated by my doppelg?\xA7ngers? Can there only be one? How do I reply to this advance. Really, another Sam Felder?
We chat for a bit and I learn that he comes from a family of New York doctors and is a doctor in Connecticut who got bored on this post-Labor Day Tuesday and started egosurfing. I'm struck that he'd never come across my existence before as I dominate queries for Sam Felder and Samuel Felder. The change today is that I happened to post my cell phone number to the wiki at a recent conference. This was, in retrospect a stupid thing to do but, what the heck, everyone else was doing it to and I am, if anything, a lemming...
He too is actually named Samuel as, apparently, was his grandfather who immigrated in the late nineteenth century.
I had before only known of a few other Sam Felders but had never thought to contact any of them.
The most notorious of us is sadly Sammie Felder Jr. who spent twenty-three years on death row in Texas, the second longest in the history of the state. He was ultimately executed on December 15, 1999 for the brutal murder of a forty-two-year-old paraplegic man.
One other notable Samuel Felder was one of seven brothers, the sons of Swiss immigrants, who fought in the American Revolution on behalf of their state of South Carolina.
And then there's me.... and my doppelg?\xA7nger.
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