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If, like me, you are called John Smith and you live in England, you have the same name 0)asthousands of other people. When I was a child, I thought that (1)in the world had a different name and I had a name of my (2), but as (3)as I went to school I realised that I was wrong because I found (4)were two other boys with my name. In fact, one of them became a close friend of (5) When I meet someone for (6)first time, they often think that they have met me before somewhere, but then they realise that in fact they are thinking of somebody (7)- another John Smith. If I say my name in a hotel or a bank, the receptionist often looks at me suspiciously as (8)is a name which people use (9)they have to invent one quickly. Having met people (10)all kinds of names, I have decided it is better to have a common name rather (11)a very unusual one. (12)parent chooses a name they like but when I recently met two people called Honey Moon and Holly Bush I wondered (13)their parents were thinking of. (14)of them appeared to mind having unusual names although they (15)agreed that people sometimes did not take them seriously.