So wait, do people call you Christopher?

No.

My grandfather sometimes.

Apparently, one of my friends from elementary school works at the hospital where my mom works

now, and he asked about me a couple weeks ago, and was like, how was Christopher doing?

And my mom was telling me this, and I was like, wait, why did he call me Christopher?

And she was like, well, because that's what you called yourself when you were a child.

And I have no memory of that.

And I told her, like, I distinctly remember having, okay, well, this tells you everything you need to know about me.

I remember having an imaginary friend

whom I called Chris 2,

who was just another me.

You just imagined another version of yourself.

Another version of myself,

and that's who I wanted to play with.

Yeah.

But like the fact that I named him Chris too tells me that I called myself Chris, right?

Because I doubled my own identity.

He wasn't Christopher too.

I mean, to be fair, my grandfather calls me Christopher because he's from Arkansas.

Welcome to episode 94 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations calls me Christopher because he's from Arkansas.

Welcome to episode 94 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South. My name is Chris Jensen, and I am breathing. And I'm Annie Jones,

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