I had a sense of [___] when I saw the girl who looked just like her mother used to.

The phrase “déjà vu” describes the feeling that you have experienced a situation before. Seeing a girl who looked just like her mother used to could create that familiar, almost repeated feeling. So “déjà vu” fits; “carte blanche” means freedom to act, and “verbatim” means word for word.

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