Jeroen

I have a Dutch friend named Jeroen. He's a very thoughtful sensitive man who is my best friend's partner. At first his name was strange to my Anglophone ear/tongue and I struggled with it. But after knowing him for some years now, his name seems masculine yet tender and for some reason reminds me of a safe harbor for ships... like 'mooring'.

This would have been my name if I had been a boy and for that reason alone I am glad that I'm a girl. I hate this name.