Well, I am, but not enough to give myself a made up first name. On the Phoenix website I’m cited as T.K. McFadden. Rest assured, it’s just a typo and fine in the print version.
For vanity’s sake, let’s assume it stands for “Tough Knuckles McFadden.”
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