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		randallsquared on Sept 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your name is way too long for your ID Google+ currently even chooses to disbelieve that a person's first and last names can be the same. Oddly, this wasn't the case a few years ago, since I managed to create an account with my real name, then. Trying to consolidate all my accounts under one failed recently, though.

achy on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

Randall Randall?

randallsquared on Sept 13, 2013 | | [–]

Yup.

scott_s on Sept 13, 2013 | | | [–]

I have been looking at your username for over five and a half years and that never occurred to me.

derleth on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

That just makes me want to feed people poison eels.

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