>>>...(My daughters are both adorable but very easy to tell apart: one needs to be kicked in the behind on a regular basis and the other can be devastated by an unkind word.
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>>They must be dopplegangers of mine then!
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>Here's a perfect example where I lost the meaning because I didn't watch the context closely. I read this as "they are my doppelgangers", just as "friends of mine" means "my friend" (don't tell me I got this wrong). On second thought, I thought I'm not getting it, and tried to match how would two different kids be your doppelgangers at the same time. On third thought, I remembered that you too have daughters. Then I understood that "of mine" means "of the ones I have".

lol

Understandable - though, without the context even, how young women could be MY dopplegangers I don't know.

BUT, I guess they couldn't be dopplegangers of me cos, as there are 2, us making three, then they'd have to be ... dreifachgangers? - just as you can't have 3 twins :-)