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Tiny correction: in 2010, I invented a thing parallel to something many well-educated Americans of my acquaintance believe with respect to the centrality of their experience, for the Falsehoods essay.

In 2012, a clerk actually asked my wife and I, when we got married, whether it wouldn't make more sense for me to change my name. Then he wouldn't have to spell Patrick McKenzie on the wedding paperwork, and, approximate quote, "I already have to get one name change form out for her so filling out a second one is no trouble at all."