Jorge moved to his desktop computer so he could see the images more closely. He glanced at a picture of William holding a shot glass, a friend by his side. Uneasily, he noted one of William in a butcher’s smock, looking just the way Jorge did on the rare days he had to wear a lab coat. Jorge started flipping through more of William’s Facebook images, now on his own phone. Maybe his father, who was never more than an occasional visitor to their home, had another child he never mentioned. He sat down with Laura in the office kitchen so they could talk. He could not stop staring at Laura’s phone. ‘‘Tell me what you think of this photo,’’ he told his friend, handing him the phone. A friend was walking by Jorge’s desk, and Jorge flagged him down for a second opinion. Jorge often wore one just like it, which made it all the more apparent just how thoroughly the young man in the photo looked like him. William was wearing a yellow Colombian soccer jersey, practically a national uniform on the day of big matches. Jorge, smiling, took a look at her phone. Laura went upstairs to piping to get Jorge’s reaction to the photo. 9, 2014, a slow day at her new job, Janeth texted Laura an image of William to show Jorge. That question tugged at her until finally, on Sept. She didn’t feel as though she knew Jorge well enough to bring the resemblance up with him, but she did show William a photo of Jorge William laughed and showed it around the butcher shop but chalked it up to coincidence.Īfter six months, Janeth left Strycon for another job, but even then, whenever she and her boyfriend ran into William, she wondered if she should have told Jorge about his double.
The two men had the same soft brown eyes. Soon after, she saw Jorge for the first time and immediately understood Laura’s confusion at the butcher counter. Jorge laughed and told her that he did have a twin, named Carlos, but that they looked nothing like each other.Ī month later, Laura told Janeth that there was an opening in the drafting department at Strycon, and Janeth landed the job. The following Monday at Strycon, Laura told Jorge about her funny misunderstanding with his double at the butcher counter. It was their frame, the texture of their hair, the set of their mouth and dozens of other details that Laura could not have readily identified but that she knew all added up to a rare likeness. It was not just their similar coloring or the high cheekbones.
It was almost easier for her to believe that Jorge was playacting as someone else, rather than that there could be two people who looked so much alike. Janeth insisted she was mistaken, but Laura was not convinced. Laura was baffled: Why was Jorge pretending to be someone else? Maybe, she thought, he was embarrassed to be seen moonlighting this way - the bloodied apron, the white cap. Janeth introduced him to Laura as William. A few minutes later, he came out from behind the counter to say a quick hello, embracing Janeth. But he was not smiling back at her, which was strange. ‘‘No, it’s Jorge - I know him,’’ Laura said. William was a hard worker and rarely left that butcher counter, except to sleep. ‘‘He works in my office.’’ He was a well-liked 24-year-old who worked a few floors up from her, designing pipes for oil transport, so she was surprised to see him waiting on customers in the shop. Behind the butcher counter was a colleague from her job at Strycon, an engineering firm. Janeth was sure he would give her and Laura a cut rate on the ribs.Īs Laura walked into the grocery store, catching up with Janeth, she was surprised to spot someone she knew. Janeth’s boyfriend’s cousin, William, a sweet young man with a thick country accent, worked behind the butcher counter there, expertly filleting beef and cutting pigs’ feet that his customers liked to boil with beans. Janeth Páez suggested that they stop by a grocery store not far from where her friend Laura Vega Garzón lived in northern Bogotá. They were two pretty young women in search of pork ribs for a barbecue later that day, a Saturday in the summer of 2013.
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