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78. Why Do We Put Things Off Until the Very Last Minute?

No Stupid Questions

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Why People Change Their Names

i come from a family of big name changers. Both my parents, when they underwent a religious conversion, they both changed their first names. I was so in love with franko harris in grades maybe four to six, that i adopted the franco. Also, just as his parents own story suggests, there are some languages like th chinese is a tonal language. There are four tones, and that doesn't exist in english. My dad's name was ying, which, again, i'm sure i got the tones wrong on that. When he came here, people couldn't pronounce it. They certainly couldn't even spell the english finetization, so they just

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