The Weird Comfort Of Familiar Strangers: Why Some People Feel Like We’ve Known Them Forever

There are some people you spend years around and never really know. And then there are those rare people who walk into your life on a random Tuesday afternoon and somehow feel familiar within minutes. What’s the secret?Maybe it's the way they laugh. Maybe it's the expression they make when they're listening. Maybe it's nothing you can point to at all. You just sit there, halfway through a conversation, with the odd feeling that you've met this person somewhere before, even when you know you haven't.