Sister Rags, I could not agree more!

But ... I clicked on the pictures to enlarge them and put my fingers over part of the faces so I was comparing just the eyes or just the noses or just the lips. When I did it that way, the individual parts look the same. Otherwise, that looked like a line-up of completely different people to me. I'm still not completely convinced. I would make a terrible witness.

I've read that police are trained to look at the the shapes of ears and eyes and hands, things that are hard to change. There are people out there who can recognize people aged 30 years or with nose jobs or big weight gains and losses. I don't know how they do it. Except when I just look at the individual parts, I can see the sameness. Don't know why I can't put the whole faces together. The eyes, noses and lips were the only things I could recognize and only while blocking the rest of the face.

I'm pretty sure the shapes of the jowls and neck wattles were purposely altered -- they really are different in the pictures -- because that's something that happens in real life as people age or gain/lose weight. To most people, they remain recognizable.

Does looking at individual parts while blocking the rest of the face work for anyone else?