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OS: Why this Face?

He ran his hand across his cheek, pulling the skin taught, feeling the bones beneath. His eyes flickered back to the computer screen and met with an identical pair. They weren’t the only twins he was confronted with. The sharp nose mirrored his own, the eyebrows followed the same lines his own traversed and the lips curved in the same ways. Only a scar under the left eyebrow reassured him the man was somebody else. Arnav Singh Raizada. A strand of long hair fell in front of his eyes, obscuring the screen. The picture showed a similarly ungroomed man but it looked purposeful: the lank hair and unshaven beard clearly a conscious choice. He looked beyond the picture at his reflection in the computer, his own unkempt hair and rough beard looked back at him defiantly, seemingly ready to retort about their lack of access to running water and blades should he even dare to question their length. The man in the picture was 36 years old to his own 28, married with 2 children and ric...