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[quote=THERIVERBOATMAN,435307]Theriverboatman, formerly Guest12318.

Hi all, thanks for the responses, I really appreciate them.

How does this sound to you? Checking my e-mail last night I find a letter from my lady. Puzzled by the timing ( a reply in under 1 1/2 hours ) I open the letter from my love. The opening lines were:-

Hello Dad,
I am your daughter, (name),I were very happy for her after she told me about you. I always hope my mom can find a man who will love her as who she is, and I can see my mom love you as well from her words.

I'm studying at another city all the time, I can't be with her, she lived with my second aunt after I go to university. I don't want her be alone any more, I hope she can find someone take care of her instead of me. . . . .

and so on.

I was just accepting the fact that if I marry my lady, this would be true, I would be a stepfather, and was beginning to feel pleased and yes, proud that she would call me dad. Then something clicked in my head. The letter had come via my ladies mail account, and the daughter was "in another city all the time". O.K. says the optimist in me, maybe she has her mothers account details and wants to make contact as there was much talk on my part about how I wanted her to accept me as a friend. A gentle alarm bell rings in the farthest reaches of my befuddled old head, The name is " **i**i", I thought it was "**n**n". I look back at my letters and discover that in all but three of them the young ladies name is"**i**i". In one sequence of letters I respond to her mother using one form of her daughters name, read her mothers response and note the other form of the name, respond with an apology for getting her daughters name wrong. my lady then reverts to the original name. STILL optimistic, I decide it could be a typo. Look at my keyboard layout and realise that it would be quite a big typo because of the positions of  I and N keys.  Now I wonder, has anyone ever mis-spelled their own child's name when writing a letter? If the reply came back with your child's name mis-spelled would you not gently point out the error? Given the importance of names in the culture, I wonder why nothing has been said by mother?

I modify my original question to "why should I NOT be worried by this?" and before I blow the relationship with questions and answers routine, can I please ask you all for your opinions on this.

Thank you all for your help.
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