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(Oh dear, I started this and was halfway through and deleted it. :-/ Starting over....)

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Asa is adopting a boy from France. He wants to give him a French first name and a middle name from the New Testament. He doesn't like overly popular or unused names.

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LN: Wilder
DH: Asaph Andrew "Asa"
AS: Adrien Jude

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Esau and Sophia are expecting girl/boy twins. Esau wants to use a saint's name, but Sophia thinks that they are "old and dusty.". Esau wants to name the boy Caesar because "it means hairy, like my name" but Sophia is afraid the child would be teased. Esau agreed to use a similar sounding name.

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LN: Blythe
DH: Esau Michael
DW: Sophia Diane
DD/DS: Dara Marina / Kaiser "Kai" Austin (Dara & Sophia both mean "wisdom"; mn's are saints' names)

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Ivy and Yasmine are adopting a girl from Israel. For the first name, they want to use an extremely rare, yet easy to pronounce, Jewish name. They want to use two flower or plant middle names, since both of them have a "plant" name.

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LN: Powell-James
DH: Ivy Tamar
DH: Yasmine Eve
DD: Nitza Wisteria (the fn means "flower bud" so they decided on one mn, which is a 'climbing plant' as are ivy and jasmine)

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Keith and Larissa are expecting a boy. Keith wants to use a name of a baseball player, but Larissa wants to use an uncommon Irish name. Keith wants to honor his Scottish heritage by using a Scottish name, but Larissa wants to honor her father, Madison Walker.

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LN: Gibson
DH: Keith Graham
DW: Larissa Joan
DS: Ryne Cameron-Walker (Ryne Sandberg was a famous baseball player, and Ryne may be a variant of Ryan, which is Irish)

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Micah and Corey are adopting a boy. Micah wants to name the baby after himself, but Corey wants to name him after a Biblical king. Neither like "weird" names.

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LN: Fowler-Hess
DH: Micah Whitney
DH: Alan Cornell "Corey"
DS: Josiah "Joey" Michael

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Amanda is having a son. She wants to use a first name meaning "power" and a middle name meaning "peace."

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LN: Levine
DW: Amanda Evelyn
DS: Kendrick Solomon

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~Heather~
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace" - Jimi Hendrix