> > > Isn't it strange how a person can affect how we like a name? Christine was once my favorite name. Then I met a girl who was very nasty to me, named Christine. I no longer liked the name.
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> This is precisely why we had to start having our kids. If I'd taught any more rotten kids with my favourite names, I'd never have been able to name mine.
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> And, as an aside, I always thought it was dumb when people named all of their kids with names that started with the same initial: Debbie, David, Donna (Darleen?!). Then, two weeks after I had my second child, I realized I'd done it.
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> te(still spitting out crow feathers)ach

Hey, lookit me! Lookit me! I started a *thread*! See, Dave, it can be done! *smirks*

You think that's bad, though, two of my friends are a brother and sister born one year apart. I guess the intervening time wasn't long enough for their parents to get any good name ideas, because the older brother's name is Caley Brandon, and the younger sister's name is Kayla Brenna.

That's right. Matching first *and* middle names. (And last names too, of course.)

Luckily, by some divine circumstance Brenna preferred to be called by her middle name and Caley preferred to be called by his first. They ended up changing Brenna's birth certificate. The good Lord only knows the chaos that would've resulted if they'd both made the same choice...

Ar"glad to have a unique name"thur