There's a famous Tween author with the same name as me. I occasionally get fan email from young teenagers that somehow find my email from somewhere. Oye.

DH has a common name (first and last). In fact, there are several in our city (which isn't that big) that are close to the same age with the same name. One of them is on the sex offender registry, another fathered an illegitimate child, and yet another died in a car accident last year.

I got a letter in the mail a few years back from the mother of the illegitimate child. It was several pages long, a lot of pleading and begging for DH to be a part of this child's life. IT was a case of mistaken identity and definitely not my DH. That was a mess. We ended up hiring a lawyer. She did a search online for DH's name and our address came up. She assumed it had to be the same guy without looking into it any further.

THEN, when this other guy died in a car accident (same age and similar build as DH). I got three phone calls that day by friends/relatives that saw the accident on the news. Of course, I couldn't get ahold of DH as he was working on Lake Michigan and there are no cell signals. That was an anxious day!