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Olson with an 'O' not an 'E'

Having had an odd spelled last name my entire life, I didn't imagine that this would continue into my married life. I was so eager to get married so I could have a different last name. I dreaded mine my entire life. From the mispronunciations to the misspellings, I didn't realize I would have this same issue once I was married. At my senior prom, my last name was so butchered in misspelling that it felt as though the people I had been going to school with for the last two years didn't even know my last name existed. Let's be honest, how do you get Pheltman out of Feldmann? There isn't even a 'T' and most people would think that a last name with a 'efff' sound would be an actual letter 'F' and not a 'PH'. Having grown up in a world where I had to constantly correct people and tell them that Feldmann had another 'N' on the end or that there is no 'I' in my name so it is not pronounced Fieldmann, it's remarkable to th