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Joe Robinette Biden and the Shocking Intimacy of Discovering Someone’s Middle Name

GETTING PERSONAL

Joe Biden has a great middle name (Robinette), and he is far from alone. Why do so many public figures not embrace their eccentric hidden names, like you, Michael Rubens Bloomberg?

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