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Subject: Re: Mother's Maiden Name for Girls
Author: Billina   (Authenticated as Billina)
Date: July 1, 2012 at 8:34:03 AM
Reply to: Mother's Maiden Name for Girls by Morsa
If I heard of a girl being named Mason or Harrison, I would wonder why her parents gave her that name, but it wouldn't bother me. Once I learned that it was tradition, I would think to myself, "Huh. That's interesting", and order a cocktail (this scene takes place at a fancy Southern garden party in my mind.)

If my parents did that, I would have gotten off easy: my mother's maiden name was Colby. It sounds just girly enough to pass.

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
-Charles Bukowski

"And by the way, dearie, your punctuation sucks canal water!"
-The ghost of Vivian Vance

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