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Just a hundred feet away

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The Handsome Family has a song called All the Time in Airports , which talks about seeing someone familiar "just a hundred feet away." This person is always just out of reach , and when you get too close, they disappear. It's a phantom trick of the mind to make you believe you're seeing someone. You want them to appear, so like a dream they appear, but you're not really seeing them. So, too, this happens with television. Watch enough and you'll see people you know.  I'm one of perhaps millions enamored with Natalia Dyer's character on the Netflix hit Stranger Things. My reasons are personal. It's not like I have a thing for her. I think she's a great actress and she's obviously attractive, too. My reason for watching is because she reminds me of someone. If you've been following this blog, then I'm sure you can guess with 100 percent accuracy who that woman is.  Natalia's character, Nancy Wheeler, is from a good family...