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in reply to a message by Cheryl
Aughtney may have been your ggm's name, but perhaps you could have saved yourself the embarrassment you clearly feel by keeping it as a middle name. (I'm assuming that you wouldn't be so defensive and prickly if you weren't hurt. And that the mother of a child named Jane wouldn't have to feel that way.)
Clearly you are right; the person counts, not the name. Equally clearly, if you have ever sung along to A Boy Named Sue(who had to get tough or die), names given with the best of intentions can be needless burdens to their owners, not all of whom will want to battle their way through life because of some aged ancestor they didn't even know.
Please refer to a message above from a young man named Jody who is running into trouble from the school bullies because of his parents' decision to give him a name that is perceived to be girly.
Clearly you are right; the person counts, not the name. Equally clearly, if you have ever sung along to A Boy Named Sue(who had to get tough or die), names given with the best of intentions can be needless burdens to their owners, not all of whom will want to battle their way through life because of some aged ancestor they didn't even know.
Please refer to a message above from a young man named Jody who is running into trouble from the school bullies because of his parents' decision to give him a name that is perceived to be girly.
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