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Achievement Unlocked: Corrected nearly 100 year old spelling error.

January 25, 2013April 17, 2015 | be3n

Today I finished the final steps in officially correcting the spelling of my last name. I only wish my grandfather was alive to hear the tale. It really was a surprising amount of paperwork.

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