If a pen name is supposed to demonstrate reticence to self-exposure, John Cheese missed the memo.

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Malala wondered on her blog if she should adopt a pen name -- Gul Makai.

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In the diary, which she kept for the BBC's Urdu service under a pen name, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants as they ruled.

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In this email interview, we talk about social commentary, the people who reach out to him about addiction and how explaining his real name made him choose a pen name, which he then had to explain to me.

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Danny Vittore is a pen name.

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The name itself is a pen-name.

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Think about it, an athlete simply signing their name with a pen, nothing more.

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There's also a co-story credit for one Edmond Dantes, the pen name affected by John Hughes for his lesser work, some of which sat on a shelf for years.

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On the second day, when Antoniello asked her to name some simple objects in her hospital room -- a pen, glasses, a watch -- she could not utter the words.

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Last month, Winchell, who uses the pen name "Helen Killer" on the blog, put out a call for community members who knew of children at risk of not getting gifts this Christmas.

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"It was the best beach we had for New Yorkers, and it's not easy to be a nudist in New York, " said Jones, who asked that she be identified only by her pen name.

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