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in reply to a message by Lily
I knew of one Virginia and knew one other. Way back around 1970, my sister was engaged to the guy who would become her first husband, but there was a period of time during which they broke up and he started seeing another girl named Virginia. I never saw Virginia, but I remember that period of time when my sister would talk about the Virginia that her ex-fiance was now dating. Of course, according to my sister, Virginia was very ugly and very charmless.
My sister and her ex eventually got back together and got married, but it left my sister with a lifelong hatred of the name Virginia, and it left me with a mental picture of Virginia as an ugly, charmless, man-stealing hussy.
Some years later, I knew a Virginia in college. She was always called Ginny. She was a nice enough person, but very overweight, not too physically attractive, and quite masculine.
So I guess that first Virginia would be about sixty now and the second one about fifty. I've never known a young Virginia. I do think that a nickname is avoidable, because I remember that my sister always called that first Virginia Virginia and not a nickname.
I have no particular impressions of the parents of a Virginia and I've never seen an alternate spelling. I've never cared for the name, and I usually have a thing for girls' names that start with a V and are long. It's always had a clunky image to me, like a Virginia will be a big, clumsy, horsey girl. And a man-stealing hussy.
My sister and her ex eventually got back together and got married, but it left my sister with a lifelong hatred of the name Virginia, and it left me with a mental picture of Virginia as an ugly, charmless, man-stealing hussy.
Some years later, I knew a Virginia in college. She was always called Ginny. She was a nice enough person, but very overweight, not too physically attractive, and quite masculine.
So I guess that first Virginia would be about sixty now and the second one about fifty. I've never known a young Virginia. I do think that a nickname is avoidable, because I remember that my sister always called that first Virginia Virginia and not a nickname.
I have no particular impressions of the parents of a Virginia and I've never seen an alternate spelling. I've never cared for the name, and I usually have a thing for girls' names that start with a V and are long. It's always had a clunky image to me, like a Virginia will be a big, clumsy, horsey girl. And a man-stealing hussy.
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