Mail thinks I am a different card in Address Book

For a couple of days now, when I receive new mail, Mail displays the name from a different card in the address book in the "To" section. It should recognize "my card" from the address book, but is picking up my entry for my AAA membership card in address book.
Anyone know of a way to unconfuse Mail on this point?
Thanks much! Mary-Chicago

It shows "AAA" and it shows my e-mail address correctly....and when I select Open in Address Book, it takes me to the AAA card.....AHA! Thank you for leading me to figuring this out!
In my address book card for AAA, I made 2 custom entries....I am tracking both AAA memberships, for myself and my daughter. I am using 2 of my e-mail addresses to do this, so in my AAA address book card, I listed these 2 accounts with reminders of which e-mail I am using for each of us. Mail FOUND the e-mail address on this AAA address book card and since that e-mail is associated with my Mail account, it apparently adopted this card as me for incoming mail. As soon as I adjusted this on the AAA card to be a hint rather than the actual e-mail address, the problem was immediately fixed in Mail!
Thanks so much for helping me find this.....was a strange one.

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