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Re: WDYT of Honeysuckle?
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Hmmmm I really don't think it'd work. First of all, her male teenage peers would have an absolute field day with the fact that her name contained "suck(le)". I'd go with just Honey, personally._____________________________________________________________________"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love"Elinor
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Maybe teenagers were less sex-obsessed then?Or the word "suck" did not have the same associations as now. I doubt that her parents would have named her that if they knew.I was thinking that the was perhaps too sweet, the "such" thing never entered my mind.
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Not likely . . .A pre-occupation with sex has been the defining characteristic of adolescents (or at least, adolescent *males*, since women weren't supposed to have those feelings) for basically ever.
ChrisellAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Exactly. It's biology-based.
Miranda
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Yup ... It was just spoken about less openly, back then ;-)_____________________________________________________________________"There are few more distressing sights than that
Of an Englishman in a baseball cap
Yeah we'll die in the class we were born
That's a class of our own my love"Elinor
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