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I could do this all day. Like, give me a Sharpie.
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And, like, it's on. Oh, nice.
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I like signing my name.
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I don't know, I feel like the J is sexy.
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Because you could do so many things with it.
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And so many curves to it, which I think fits me.
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It's funny because I feel like we don't sign at all anymore.
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Signatures may soon disappear from people's daily lives.
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Major credit card companies will no longer require signatures for any purchases.
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I used to love to sign my name.
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Be all over a notebook at the end of like a school year.
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That was in middle school, when I was very excited about trying to figure out how to do a signature.
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Then in high school.
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I created another signature.
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You know, 16 years old, got my driver's license.
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So when I was, I guess in grade school.
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I remember trying to make a signature that I thought looked kind of like graffiti or a tag.
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Even though I had never, you know, spray-painted.
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Or done anything like that.
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I write my S's backwards.
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I've made like an @ sign, which is like a D and an A.
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And I make an M.
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And then I've got an arrow at the end that just kind of symbolizes that my life is on the upwards.
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And when I started actually signing like it was really me mimicking my mom's signature.
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And I still kind of kept this little curve in the signature — that's definitely from my mother.
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In Russian it's called 'roscherk', which is like kind of ending the signature with some sort of, like, ornament.
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Or maybe it's just a character of me taking a little more space than I require, I don't know.
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But my wife always rolls her eyes.
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I was always told that it was too involved.
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But I maintain that it's a necessary part of my style.
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So this one is called
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'I'm in a rush to get out of this restaurant.'
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The few times a year that I'm actually writing checks.
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Then I actually do a connected signature.
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You know really you only need to have a signature for legally binding contracts at this point.
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And then I'm sure at one point that won't even be it.
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Because you know we can sign things electronically now.
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I would miss it.
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There's nothing more fabulous than having a conversation: 'Oh, yes, thank you.'
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That is just so fun.
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Like who doesn't —Who doesn't like it? Especially if it's a really good place.