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In my childhood, my sisters would always fight with my mom for the fact that why I only had the nickname. Both my younger and elder sis are very close to me and they will frequently tease my mom with allegationsJ that she loved me most. But they were also aware that that was not correct. In fact my elder brother is the most preferred child and he doesn’t have a nickname. I never missed an opportunity in exploiting this coincidence and now and then make my sis and brother jealous of it.

Now coming to origin of my nickname, it was given by my eldest sister [we are five siblings] and Jijaji. Somehow they didn’t find my name coherent with meJ.Right now still it [nickname] continues to be part of daily life. Not because everyone calls me with that but it has become part of my email id and in fact all ids. My official name is too common for web portals to generate some meaningful unique id out of it.

School gave me another nicknameJ and I was called with it throughout my schooling. I don’t remember who came with that idea but it was very simple one, my initials. Still my school friends call me with the same name. College was fun but somehow luckily I escaped from any new nomenclature there. Other wise like most of the creative namesJ , it would also have to be censored outside campus.

The best coincidence with my nickname [family] came in South Korea. Korean people find it very difficult to pronounce my official name. After looking at my mail id (mail2minku), they were really pleased and told me that minku was also common nick name there and they had no problem in addressing me with that. So after that I was minku for them.

I think I should stop now. Otherwise I am going to get a new one which surely refers to some version of junk.