MYSTERY No.0034 · Solve on your own

The End of the Search

A thoughtful cat at a wooden table, holding a photograph of a female cat
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A man was using a single photograph to search for a woman whose whereabouts were unknown. One day, a friend looked at the photograph and said, “That looks familiar.” The man went to the place his friend told him about. He did not meet the woman, but when he found the same photograph there, he stopped searching for her. Why did the man stop searching for the woman?

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