Michelle from Tallahassee, Florida, says that when she was a kid, she decided on the first day of kindergarten that she would tell her teacher that she went by a different name, so that’s what everyone at school called her. Imagine her mother‘s surprise on parents‘ night when she couldn’t find her daughter’s desk or any schoolwork with her name on it. This is part of a complete episode.
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