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She was very touched. When I told her I was going to do it, she just said, "Oh." She wasn't very verbally demonstrative, though she said it in a pleased tone. Then at my daughter's christening, when the minister said the name "Victoria Zoe", I looked at my mother, and she had tears in her eyes. This is the example I often cite when somebody says, "I know that my grandmother wouldn't have wanted me to use her exact name to honor her, because she hated her name." Nope, ain't necessarily so!

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The fact that my mother died when my daughter was thirteen months old made me glad that I used her name, and glad that she at least lived to see that.