Help: Text duplicates in all form fields

When filling in the PDF form fields (of the PDF fillable form that I created), the text duplicates into every other field in the PDF, regardless of which box you type into. Help?

This is how PDF forms behave if the fields names are the same, so you just need to change their names in Acrobat so they are all different.

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