Emily Hegarty

Have you ever googled yourself? It's weird to find out there's people out there with your name. I googled both my married name and my maiden name, and for some reason I thought it was a little more strange that somebody has my maiden name. Maybe that's because it was the name I was born with, my "true" name, if you will. It's the name I grew up with, the name I carried through all those awkward growing up years when I was figuring out who I was and who I wanted to become. And it's not like I have a very common name that one would expect to find many listings of in the phone book, not that it's super unusual either. Still, I was somewhat taken aback that there were people out there with MY name. One of the persons with my name was a girl on a varsity athletic team, listed as a freshman. I feel like I should give her some advice, like she's some younger version of me, and really that's just ridiculous. Still, it's interesting to think about.