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I knew a DeeDee whose real name was the same as mine, both first and middle, Janice Diane. She was young to have the name Janice, born in 1974, but the explanation for that was that she was named after her mother. So a nickname was needed to avoid confusion, but how DeeDee was arrived at, I don't know. The mother Janice was killed in a car crash when she was in her forties, so DeeDee's brother named his daughter Janice after his mother, but she was called Cissy, by everyone except DeeDee, who called her Little Janice. DeeDee died of a heart attack when she was only 35.

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DeeDee had a brief relationship with a friend of B.'s named Ray, but Ray always called her DeeDA. DeeDee never objected, but I sure would have. Look, idiot, get my name right.