I quite agree. For example, with the name
Daisy, I'm not sure I'd ever use it. If I did, however, I'd use it as a nn for
Margaret or
Marguerite since my late mother was named
Margaret. Also, my three dds have formal names and it would feel strange and incongruous to not give
Daisy a formal name to go along with theirs. Those reasons don't feel particularly pretentious to me. ;-)
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." --
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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