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Totally agree.
When we were told that we that we might be having twins (thankfully proven false) Alexander and I realized that the only names we like for girls started with M - Margaret and Miriam. Our top chose for a boy was Malcolm - boy/girl would have been Miriam and Malcolm. The first thing I thought was "Oh No! My kids will hate me." Until I realized just how many siblings share the same initials and lived through it trauma-free. It's not like it's Mimi and Miri or Dustin and Dusti.
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I've mentioned this before, but, for new posters, my brother and I were Jean and John. Both of us liked our names. Actually, I know twins named Carol and Cheryl, who grew up happily, and on good terms with their parents.
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my stepfather...Is Larry and his twin sister is Linda. They also grew up happy and normal, in spite of their same-letter names, and the fact that each had four or five other kids with the same name in school.
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I was quite an age before I realized that twins need not be named Plinkety and Plunkety. I met a girl who had twins siblings named Claire and David, and I thought, "Can you do that?"Popular names-my daughter, Carol, was always one of 2 or 3 Carols (mostly spelled Carole) in the same class.The name was having a time of usage in the French-speaking community, which I hadn't realized, and anyway, my husband was completely charmed by the name..so pretty! So unusual! (He's from the Middle East.)
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No! No! It can't be! *foams at mouth, head explodes*
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