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Not too surprising, since it's mentioned just once in the novel, and after that she's always called Bonnie. And actually, it's EugeniE Victoria, not EugeniA Victoria. I knew it, but then, I bet I could best everyone here in a GWTW trivia contest. What happened, see, is that it was decided she'd be named Eugenie Victoria "after two queens", but then Rhett said her eyes were going to be pea green, at which point Melanie opined that they were going to be blue, "as blue as the Bonnie Blue Flag", at which point Rhett laughed and said, "Bonnie Blue Butler" and after that she was called Bonnie, until even her parents forgot she was named after two queens, much the same way that Pittypat had supplanted Sarah Jane (Aunt Pittypat Hamilton, you remember) many years before. Pittypat got her nickname from her fond father because of the sound her feet made as she ran around as a child. Whew! Enough GWTW for ya?

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Anyway, I made this post to correct that small error and to say that I far prefer both Eugenie and Victoria to Bonnie (yuk), so I think this fictional nickname choice was a poor one!

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That, and for some reason, I can't sleep.