Celebrity I most resemble
It started in China, not too long into my trip. The first three times I just blew it off. They were Chinese and maybe didn’t get the same exposure as Westerners. Then, in the Gobi desert, my fears were confirmed when a yet a fourth Chinese person point out the similarity and an American and an Israeli backed him up. I look like Bill Clinton. My initial reaction was a little surprise and more self consciousness. The Bill Clinton I remember was kinda fat with big bags under his eyes. I immediately set out to lose a little of my middle. Still it would happen. Eleven months later, a life of travel has reshaped my body. And I still get told I look like American president Beer Crinton. Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Malaysians, Indonesians, Laos, Indians, Czechs, Irish, Canadians all have found the resemblance so striking that they will walk up to me in restaurants, or the taxi driver will turn around and the light and tell me, or shop keepers tell me while I browse, ect. It happens sometimes as often as several times a week. This week alone I have been told four different times. Since then I have come to realize that the image most other people have of Bill Clinton is not one of an out of shape and haggard man, but something altogether more positive. Bill Clinton was handsome and charming, even if a little personally unscrupulous. He is associated with prosperity and reasonable foreign policy; a popular man in Asia it turns out. People are still talking about how much they liked him. Now I take it as a compliment.
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