What an interesting thread!
My name is not Caroline or anything like it. "Caroline" is nothing more than a nod to my home state of South Carolina. When I came here, I had reasons for not wanting to use my "regular" pen name (Kalina) so I chose another one that was close enough to feel a little bit familiar. I'm mostly over that now and kind of wish I'd just stuck with Kalina - but don't worry, I'm not going to ask everyone to start calling me something different
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Sue said:
I find that I actually feel like Sue *is* my name just as much as the one my parents gave me.
That's how I feel about "Kalina". That name has become as much a part of who I am - the fan fiction-writing part of me - as my real name. It seems strange, but when I write or when I talk about fan fiction - even here, where everyone knows me as Caroline - I still
feel like Kalina. And yes, I know that's weird
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Caroline
