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Well, honestly, I am using honoring in a looser fashion than some here. We have an Octavia, Vivian and Kathleen. Octavia and Vivian both hate/hated thier names but are OK with Ottavia and Viviana - and no wonder why!! haha!! I started with Vivian - and she likes Viviana quite a bit - her name is Vivian Ann so she feels like it's her whole name. Octavia isn't with us anymore, but she didn't like the "Oct" sound at the beginning. She used to say "why not name be October and get it over with!" her nick name was Tavi - more like Ottavia than Octavia so it made sense. You don't have to marry an italian, just italian-ize the names you have! hahaha!! :-)

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