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For me it has family significance as well. It's actually a heartbreaking story. My great-great-grandmother (Alice Augusta Robey--I've mentioned her) had twelve brothers and sisters (lovely names but that's beside the point). The youngest of the twelve sisters, Mira (also the most beautiful) had gotten married to a man named Amos Lowry (love that name beyond comprehension). Unfortunately though she had gotten pregnant long before the wedding and in the 1890's it was simply out of the question in Burtonsville, Maryland to give birth less than nine months after a wedding. So, she tried to induce miscarriage and died in the process, leaving behind her new husband, Amos. Heartbreaking, isn't it? Mira's portrait still hangs over the center of my grandmother's mantle. Actually if I ever had boy-girl twins, Amos and Mira would be a consideration.

This message was edited 3/18/2008, 8:28 PM