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'I answered to a name that wasn't mine'

When author Hira Nathan was told during a job interview his first name was "too hard" to pronounce, it became a moment he would carry with him for years.

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'I answered to a name that wasn't mine'When author Hira Nathan was told during a job interview his first name was "too hard" to pronounce, it became a moment he would carry with him for years.
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