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It wasn't until a week later it dawned on me why she thought it looked like me: I had owned an almost identical shirt in high school 20+ years earlier. One that she had bought me then. So setting aside that she blatantly ignored my stated preferences, she was also falling back to fashion trends of previous decades. That was when I realized she was still operating as if it were the 1980s. She had her worldview largely set in her 20s and stopped thinking critically about it entirely in her 30s.