>>>I've had two halves of this, independently.
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>>>The my deskmate at school was Dragan Nedeljkov. No itch. We don't really look alike at all, in fact we are quite different. This didn't prevent a few teachers to cross-mark us. He'd get my C and then next time he'd up that to a B it would be written into my file. Or vice versa.
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>>>My wife is a doctor, and there was another dr. Nedeljkovich in town (who actually did her first birth); his wife has the same name as my wife's, although hers is the Hungarian version - sounds quite different. They probably had some private practice in his wife's name, a cosmetic thingy or something. Our phone was on my wife's name (didn't want my users to find me at home ;), and guess how many times they were calling dr. Nedeljkovich - and were happy they got one...
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>>We should just change our names to John Smith <g>.
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>What? I mean we both have quite unusual names (for this part of the world) and we both have our lot of doppelgangers. Now why in the name of the world would you think that multiplying the problem... no, raising it by at least three orders of magnitude would make it easier?
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>Anyway, thanks for the laughs - I read this whole bit with your doppelganger to my wife and (one of) daughter(s), and we rofled.

And thank you for introducing the word "doppelganger" into my vocabulary. I didn't know it before.