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Waiting with her baby daughter to board a flight in Anchorage, Alaska, Jolene Jackinsky did a double take: She saw a man who looked just like former President Barack Obama.

“As I got closer, I thought: Oh my God, it is Obama,” she said.

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Obama asked about Jackinsky’s toddler and posed for selfies with the family, which Jackinsky later posted to social media.

“I’m taking your baby,” Obama joked to the child’s father, who was also at the airport, Anchorage’s KTUU TV station reported.

“It was unreal, very exciting,” Jackinsky told KTUU of the incident Monday. “After I met him, I couldn’t believe I actually talked to him and he held my baby.”

Jackinsky said she and the former president talked about children while Obama held her little girl.

Obama was on his way home from a family trip to Indonesia.

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