OK, but why do we all think that dog looks exactly like Laura Dern?

On Tuesday, TV critic Margaret Lyons tweeted the following photo of a dog named Kimchee that bears a striking resemblance to actress Laura Dern. It was, objectively, the greatest tweet of 2018. 

More than 5,000 retweets and 25,000 likes later, it’s safe to assume others agree. Even Dern sees the resemblance!

We loved it, we wrote about it, but we couldn’t stop thinking about it. Why, exactly, does this dog  remind us of a beloved human actress? Is it the silken ears, the partially hidden eyes, or something else we can’t quite identify? Read more…

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