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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (88131)	11/6/2004 5:59:32 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Somehow from your previous post I imagined you in a wheelchair, or worse--an iron lung perhaps. I thought Mrs. R must be struggling to work a couple of full-time jobs and keep the cookie jar full while having two family members in diapers. So it is a profound relief that I heard of your very long bicycle ride. Naming children is very tricky. There was a trend that may even be continuing, to give girls born of some privilege unisex names so that they are not discriminated against in the early days of their corporate/legal careers. My own opinion is that any perceived advantage of this is overcome by the confusion absolutely everyone not having any idea of whether you are a boy or a girl until they actually meet you. I failed miserably at naming my child. I THOUGHT I'd found a very old, traditional Gaelic name that was very soft and feminine on the tongue, and it fit perfectly, of course, since her daddy is Irish. Everyone who heard her name loved it so much they each told a thousand people, who each told ten thousand people, and now its sheer beauty and exotic lilt waft through every classroom and WalMart, and across every sports field in America even as its spelling and pronunciation become garbled, bizarre, distorted and trite. Oh well!