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It is such a dilemma! See, I usually dislike people naming kids a nn (for eg, I adore Norah but any Norah of mine would be Eleanor "Norah" and ditto with Jeremiah "Jem" or Elisabeth "Bess" etc even if I would only ever call them by that nn) except everything other than Teresa (and the variants) seems like a stretch or that I am trying too hard and I really cannot stand Theresa! And unlike other nns, I can see Tessa on its own. I could take a Tessa seriously. President Tessa Jackson (Jackson isn't my ln by the way, just an eg) sounds perfectly fine to me. But I am worried about her being judged by others who don't see it the same way.
I guess the other thing is that my other kids are likely to have quite formal full names as fns and will all have nns (such as Vivienne "Vivi", Eleanor "Norah", Bridget "Biddy" etc) and maybe Tessa (who would go by Tess and Tessie a bit I assume) won't fit into that...
But I really really like it! Grrrrrr! :p

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I guess its a good thing this is all hypothetical and kids are a long way (I hope!) off for me!

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Thanks for your opinion!