I’m kind of in the same, but as you except for my name isn’t necessarily unique. It’s just a very common nickname for a longer name that isn’t my name.

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Boat as you*

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In another similar boat, I’m adamant my name spelling is the correct one, but there are a million different (and now more popular) spellings of it :,) I’m just lucky I at least had that as a kid before everyone decided to butcher the spellings of common names

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