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No, I’m not that Helena Halme

April 6, 2010 by Helena Halme 9 Comments

I think I have a real life double. I’ve never met her, but I keep hearing about her. Last night on Twitter I was asked if I free-lance as a translator on YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Corporation).
No, I don’t.
Now, Halme is not an uncommon name in Finland, nor is Helena, but with five million people in a country the size of Britain it is unusual to have a person of the same name to:
1. Be born in the same year, and month, and day.
2. Live in the same part of Helsinki.
3. Have a bank account at the same branch of the same bank as you. (Don’t ask me how I know all this, but I do – this was before identity theft or privacy laws were invented)
4. Start translating for the Finnish TV around the same time you start as a translator for the BBC in Britain.
Is she stalking me or am I stalking her? Or perhaps we are twins separated at birth?
PS. If you are that Helena Halme and reading this, do send me an email. It’s about time we met…(*hears scary movie music*)?

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Comments

  1. Wildernesschic says

    April 6, 2010 at 9:58 am

    That is amazing LOL… When we were all over the news I googled myself and Darren, and apart from "our news"….
    Now please forgive the language there was another Ruth Johnston on Facebook that… "Wanted to suck Darren's cock" … Yes my husband was shocked at first, before realising his wife was not quite so uncouth, it was a much younger version of me with a much younger Darren, but still quite a coincidence xxx

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  2. JulieB says

    April 6, 2010 at 11:25 am

    Wow, fascinating, that is really quite spooky.

    I personally have gone from having a relatively uncommon (at least "down south") surname to having a relatively common one and I do find it strange how many other "mes" are out there doing interesting things.

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  3. Hunter says

    April 6, 2010 at 12:42 pm

    I love a good doppelganger story. Surely you're the 'good' one.

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  4. Helena Halme says

    April 6, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    Ruth, trust you to have story like that. Very funny!

    JulieB, it is quite scary, isn't it, to realise there's some-one out there people think is you?

    Hunter, I assure you, I AM the good one…

    xx

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  5. Looking Fab in your forties says

    April 6, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    It was Ruth really! Ha Ha. No seriously that is uncanny and just a tad freaky!

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  6. hampshireflyer says

    April 6, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    This happened to my mum twenty years ago – same first name, same surname, same line of work, same London suburb, offices at one point only a street apart…!

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  7. Helena Halme says

    April 6, 2010 at 6:49 pm

    Hampshireflyer and Fab., Perhaps there's a parallel universe that we break through to every now and then? (More scary music plays inside my head.)

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  8. Christina Lindsay says

    April 7, 2010 at 2:41 am

    That is uncanny! Love the twins picture. There's a blog award for you at mine. I've been trying to leave you a message for a while but for some reason your comments keep jamming my Mac xx

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