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message 1: by Stephen (last edited Jan 11, 2013 08:32AM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

Stephen In this book Will Grayson meets another Will Grayson.

Have you ever met anyone else with YOUR name?

I'm Stephen Knapp and I've met a couple OTHER Stephen Knapps.

When I attended Michigan State I got (and returned) several dividend checks delivered to my dorm address for a Stephen P. Knapp.

Then, when I first started working at a bank in Florida, There was a Steven Knapp working there. When he got a divorce, I got several newspaper clippings of his announcement consoling me with ribald comments about them thinking I was already single.

Then in February of 1993 when those seven people were killed in the World Trade Center bombing I found out that I was NOT the only Stephen Knapp working there. One of the seven was named... Stephen Knapp. After they erected the memorial fountain, morbid curiosity got the better of me and I had to check it out. Gotta tell ya it's weird seeing your name carved in granite, especially on a fountain commemorating the fallen.

So... Those are MY homonymonous related doppelgängers. Who're yours?


Jennifer Went to school with one - we even had the same middle name but with different spelling. It was funny because we were polar opposites in every way. She was short and round - I was tall and skinny. I was the painfully shy straight A rule follower, and she was the loudmouth brawling bad girl who eventually dropped out (sad).

She would get called down to the vice principal's office at least once a week, over the intercom. Oh, I was so embarrassed, til I caught on, and caught a teeny bit of the bad girl vibe, and used the call as an excuse to take a break.


message 3: by Hec (new) - rated it 4 stars

Hec Hernandez no i have not, except my dad im a jr. so yea but no i have never met anyone w/ da same name as me


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

There is someone called Charlie Smith where I work which is a bit strange, although my first name is actually Charlotte, I go by Charlie the majority of the time.

Other than that, I haven't had the pleasure of meeting anyone with my name.


Leslie I share the birth name of a president (Gerald Ford), who was also a leftie like me. It's an interesting bit of little-known and really meaningless trivia. I didn't meet him.


message 6: by Stephen (last edited Feb 04, 2013 08:51PM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

Stephen Leslie wrote: "I share the birth name of a president (Gerald Ford), who was also a leftie like me. It's an interesting bit of little-known and really meaningless trivia. I didn't meet him." Gerald Ford, the Republican president who pardoned Nixon, a leftie? Did you also perhaps play football for Michigan without a helmet?

Just teasing. Perhaps you meant he was left coaster... He did live in Grand Rapids on the west coast of Michigan before making the move to the REAL left (west) coast.

Perhaps you'll also share his longevity, he was the longest living president of the U.S. ever.


Leslie Left....handed....? ;) Funny though! He and I would not have politics in common.


Deborah I haven't met anyone with my name, but I have become online friends with another Deb Bryan. She had liked my old Facebook page and started commenting on my posts there, which was mildly confusing the first couple of times.


message 9: by B. (new) - rated it 5 stars

B. Valdez People - excuse me, girls - with my name are a dime a dozen. My last name is also common but I've never met anyone with Brittany as their first name and Valdez as their last. >< It would be cool though.


Andrea Tomé I haven't really met any Andrea Tomé, but there is a girl in my class whose name is María Andrea (my two first names) and it is strange because María Andrea isn't an usual combination, haha. However, everybody calles her Marian while I only answer to the name Andrea.


Melanie Bonnici I never actually met another Melanie Bonnici but my parents told me that when I was born the nurse got confused because there was another Melanie Bonnici who was born on the same day in the same hospital


Kachina I've never even met anyone with my first name (Kachina).


Serena I'm Serena Rose, like Sireeeena. I know a Serena Rose, but she's Sir-reh-nah Rose.


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