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You ever had a moment from your past that you wished you could re-live again? Not talking a whole day like Groundhog's Day with Bill Murray. Rather like a fleeting sliver of time where you went 'what happened?'.

A few years into living in San Francisco in the late 1990s I bounced around from one crummy job to another. Mostly art related, picture framing. One spring I spent a stint working in a shop in a somewhat showy upscale neighborhood called The Cow Hollow on Union Street. As was my routine, I would clock in, do a bit of work and then break for a cup of joe at the friendly neighborhood Starbucks a few blocks up. It was a bustling, busy crowded day as I patiently waited in line for my Venti black. 

Behind me was a couple talking: an older gentleman with a woman. They sounded like they were running through a project they were working on, a talk at a public venue of some kind.

Out of curiosity I turned around to glance at them. Didn't know the lady.

The man was Dennis Hopper.

It happened too fast for me to process. Maybe he just looked like him. I got my coffee and walked back to the shop. A day or two later I read the SF Moma was recapping a lecture hosted by... Dennis Hopper. In addition to acting and directing, as well as writing books he was an avid photographer. His work was on display that month, and he'd just delivered a lecture on the day I saw him in Starbucks. ... so it was him!

(He was shorter than I'd imagined him to be.)

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