What to do about someone who looks exactly like someone I'm very close with?

Use the doppelganger as a backup in case the first one doesn’t work out?

Once you look a little closer, there might be less similarities than you think, and it will be less weird to be around the second guy. Your crush on the first guy is probably just making you jumpy about the second guy.

@Haleth

That’s true. As you get to know them more their differences may become more obvious to you. But maybe their similarities will become more obvious too.

Good luck. This question reminds me of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It was a fairly common problem in Renaissance literature that a wife could be attracted or drawn to her husband’s best friend, because the two friends were so close and so alike.

A secret twin perhaps, mother’s little secret?

If you aren’t in a committed relationship with the one who lives far away, then you are free to see if you would like to start something with his “double.” I agree with the others that once you get to know him, you will likely start seeing differences in appearance and personality—just like when you get to know identical twins. I bet that this situation is not all that uncommon, since many people are regularly attracted to a certain “type.”