The Case of Mistaken Identity

All of my life I've been confused with my older sister, Kelly. It didn't matter if it was school, sports, church, family, CMU, or strangely work, I'd gotten used to answering to the name "Kelly". Some times it's an honest mistake (at least I hope so--Dad). But often times relatives or acquaintances just can't remember which is which.

So now I'm here to report that "Kelly" has followed me to Japan! The first time it happened was my first week in Tokyo. I thought I had misheard this guy, and I blamed it on the Japanese accent or the known poor pronunciation of "r"s. The second time was no mistake... I received mail from my apartment addressed to "Ms. Kelly". Then today, I was plugging one of my 75 emails into Google Translate to make sure it was irrelevant to me and I could delete it, when the sentence "Please show Ms. Kelly Green-san" caught my eye.

After a little investigation I realized that "Kelly" and "Kerri" are the exact same characters in Japanese, so if people read the Japanese side of my business card, they automatically assume "Kelly" is my name since it is much more common!! Here's the screenshot to prove it:

So all I can say now is, thank goodness my parents never decided to move us to Japan!! It would be a little confusing with 2 daughters who have the exact same name!! Circa 1984 Circa 1998

Circa 2008.

I still love you, Kelly... maybe even more now that I know we have the same name :)