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Earlier, I saw the photo on the Entertainment Weekly site and couldn’t believe the resemblance. Hopefully, Hollywood is redeeming itself for the vampire hunter fiasco.
Uncanny indeed. Thanks.
S. Thomas Summers
Author of Private Hercules McGraw: Poems of the American Civil War