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I had a friend named Franklin who was a nice, funny guy, but also was nerdy. He was the kind of guy that it was almost impossible for any woman to have romantic feelings for. I say "almost", because when he was about forty, after not having any romantic interests in all the years prior, he finally met a woman, an average looking woman, who evidently did have romantic feelings for him, because they got married. And then alas, after a few years of marriage, she cheated on him and wanted a divorce. I felt awful for him.

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Nevertheless, his nerdiness kept him from having the variety of romantic and sexual experiences that most men do.

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So the end result is that the name Franklin seems very nerdy to me, in spite of Franklin Roosevelt not being a nerd But to tell the truth, I think that the existence of my friend just enhanced its nerdiness, to me. I used to think it a funny coincidence that nerdy Franklin was given a nerdy name at birth.

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I really hate the nickname Frank, and the syllable Frank in Franklin, too.