stackyFACTSWe are so incredibly self-absorbed that the alphabet dictates our major life actions. The name-letter effect is the bizarre subconscious preference for things, places, or even partners that share the first letter of your own name. It is narcissism operating at the most microscopic, alphabetical level imaginable.
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