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Graciela Orfelina certainly is a full name. It does have a romantic quality to it.
It isn't terribly uncommon to shorten longer names like Graciela to Gracie, Gracia or Grace, so unless she tells you she was deliberately Anglicizing her name, I wouldn't read to much into it. I had a Great-grandfather named John Bernard who always went by either Bernard or J.B. He had friends who knew him for decades that didn't realize his first name was John.
On the other side of the family, I have a relative named Lina whose Granddaughter was given the middle name Leneé in her honor. In her case, the family Frenchified her name rather than Anglicized it.
It isn't terribly uncommon to shorten longer names like Graciela to Gracie, Gracia or Grace, so unless she tells you she was deliberately Anglicizing her name, I wouldn't read to much into it. I had a Great-grandfather named John Bernard who always went by either Bernard or J.B. He had friends who knew him for decades that didn't realize his first name was John.
On the other side of the family, I have a relative named Lina whose Granddaughter was given the middle name Leneé in her honor. In her case, the family Frenchified her name rather than Anglicized it.
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