“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!” In Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, the character John Procter struggles to confess to witchcraft and save himself from the gallows.

It has recently come to light that Matthew Keirans, a former University of Iowa Hospital administrator had stolen the identity of William Woods, his former boss, took out numerous loans, got married and even had a child, all under Woods’ name.

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