This is what it's like to be named 'Hillary Clinton' or 'Donald Trump' right now

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at a presidential debate.
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If this election season has been draining, take heart in the knowledge that it could be worse: You could be a totally innocent person saddled with the name "Hillary Clinton" or "Donald Trump." CNN has tracked down two such unfortunates, she a 20-something music festival organizer and he a doctor who manages a cancer institute in Virginia.

Clinton, who now goes by "Hill," was born shortly before the Clintons entered the White House, but her parents insist the name is coincidental. Today, Clinton's emails are regularly ignored by people who believe they are campaign spam, and she is often accidentally tagged on Facebook by people who are trying to reference Clinton the candidate.

Dr. Trump has several times interacted with his more famous counterpart, once soliciting his support for a cancer fundraiser. The event's theme was "Bald for Bucks" — participants would raise money with a promise to shave their heads — and The Donald decided to simply donate rather than losing his infamous hair.

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Both Hill Clinton and Dr. Donald Trump will be voting for Hillary Clinton, though Hill notes that she's "screwed either way." Trump is scary, she says, but if "Hillary Clinton wins, then it's just going to get worse ... for me."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.