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My sister is an US Isolde born in the 1970s. Our mother was born/raised in Europe so she picked the name w/o understanding US naming conventions. Ill tell you it was not a fun time to be an Isolde amid all the Jennifers, Sarahs and Rachels. |
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You are heavily into the Libertarian party and spend a lot of time on the road going to conventions. You try to get your kids to develop awareness of the political issues of today, and while you were thrilled when 16 year old Llewellyn announced he had asked a girl to Homecoming this year, you couldn't help but turn the conversation to politics on her first visit to the house. Oh, and everything in your house is a shade of brown or beige, very earthy and honest and strewn with cat fur; you have better things to do than worry about a few dust bunnies. You caught Llewellyn's girlfriend taking sneaky photos of your living room on her phone, but you convince yourself she just wanted some cute cat photos (Jeremy and Douglas, your twin Bengals, were napping on the back of your lumpy brown couch). Your husband, Tom, has his own construction company and you can't understand why he can't find time to build the deluxe cat tree for Jeremy and Douglas that you found online: you know they would stop clawing the furniture if they only had that cat tree. The plan looks so easy, and you are considering going out to the garage and trying to put it together yourself. Harvest, who is 9, is currently calling herself Charlotte and the name has stuck at her school, which you learned after a mini conference with her teacher. When you told Harvest you were not going to call her Charlotte because you gave her a perfectly lovely name, she burst into tears, pushed her green juice back so hard it spilled across the dinner table, and stomped to her room in a storm of tears and swearing, snapping that she hates you for giving her such an ugly, weird name. Before slamming her door, she also shrieks that she hates green juice and nobody else she knows has freak parents who make them drink that stuff. Kids today! CooperAnne also hates her name, but she's 17 now and all her friends call her Coop. Coop has been accepted to Antioch College, which is where you and your husband met. She badly wanted to go to Yale, but didn't get in and has been half-heartedly talking about taking a gap year to "write her novel" and find herself. You are reassuring her that she'll love Antioch and find her "tribe" there. |
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| Wyatt |
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You live in North Dakota and married your high school sweetheart. You both went to the state U and now you work in HR at a factory that makes rubber gloves and your husband, Cody, works with his dad on the family farm. The two of you live in a cute little house on his parents' land, and someday you and Cody will move into the "big house" when his parents need extra help (Cody won't hear of putting them in a home, ever). You like to laugh that your son Wyatt is "all boy", and Cody bought him a set of miniature John Deere farm vehicles that he pushes around a mat printed with fields and roads that you sret up on the kitchen floor while you are making dinner. Wyatt got in trouble in kindergarten last week because he ripped the mask off a little girl who wears one in class, and while you are disappointed that Wyatt was aggressive to a girl, you are also secretly wondering if he absorbed Cody's attitude toward the girl's parents, who are quite vocal about their desire that people wear masks indoors and get vaccinated. Other than this little skirmish, Wyatt gets along well with the other children and you love hosting playdates for three or four of his best friends. Those boys keep you on your toes! You and Cody are planning to try for a sister for little Wyatt soon, and you plan to SAH after you announce the pregnancy. |
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| Mary, Thomas & Susan |
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Joseph
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LMAO |
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It's perwnrious in France too. |
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In retrospect, you made a tactical error. You asked to name Joseph after your grandfather who had recently passed and DH agreed. Then when you were pregnant with your 2nd son, DH chose Alexander and insists that everyone call him Sasha (after his older brother who passed at an early age). Dh's family...they emigrated to the US in the early 90s, and are now hardcore libertarians and covid deniers, at least they hate Trump! Joseph is a great kid, smart, athletic, polite-just someone who everyone likes. Sasha is small for his age but makes up for it in toughness. He will fight anyone, anywhere. You make him meditate every day, even though DH laughs at you. Currently, you and Dh are arguing about whether Sasha should be allowed to study martial arts (DH says it will give him self-discipline, but you are worried he won't get out of middle school without breaking someone's jaw). |
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They were born between 1945 and 1960. Mary became a homemaker and had three children of her own. She loved to sew and became a noted quilter in her community. Thomas became an engineer and remained a bachelor, much to his mom's chagrin-younger members of the family suspect that he is both autistic and gay. Susie was an absolute hellion. She ran away to NYC when she was 17, did God knows what-except everyone knows she did a lot of drugs. She lived on a commune for a while and somehow met and married a local farmer. Now you would never know her wild past except that you are her daughter. |
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| George and Mary |
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You decided to name your daughter Mary in college after meeting your English Literature professor, who was named Mary and who loved Chaucer. You had never met such an elegant woman as Dr. X, and while nobody would ever have dared to address the professor as Mary, you started to build up quite the mythology around the professor in your mind, and since she was the only person you had ever met named Mary, you came to associate the name with the lovely, elegant, whip-smart professor with the perfect little heart face, red lipstick, and unruly lion's mane of hair. Mary. You would one day name your daughter Mary, you decided, and you did. Your own Mary, who is now 17, looks eerily like her professor namesake, except your Mary is something of a math prodigy. She's been accepted to MIT, and you are bursting with pride, but also with frustration. This weekend you had to take Mary's bedroom door off its hinges after catching her with her boyfriend, Paris, in her room once again. Paris is a nice boy, but he and Mary are far more serious and intense in their relationship than you think is healthy at this point. Also, he's going to a less prestigious state school and you are sure the relationship will fizzle out soon enough. George is Mary's Irish twin, just 11 months younger than his sister, and everybody says he's the handsomest teen boy they've ever seen. He's tall and well-built and has improbably clear skin for his age, and his blue eyes are strikingly icy with thick dark lashes. George is a math prodigy like his sister, and you secretly die a little inside each time your husbands asserts that George is "just a little bit Asperger-y", though you know what he means. George has three good friends, though, and the boys have a 48 hour video game tournament at your house every weekend you allow it. So far he hasn't dated, but you know girls have crushes on him because Mary keeps you informed. Your husband Luther is an electric engineer from Cleveland, and he did his doctorate at Case Western. He wants to move back to the midwest to be close to family, and so far you have resisted, but recently you have begun to wonder if maybe you should reconsider. Luther's 3 siblings and their spouses live in Shaker Heights, and you are particularly close to his sister, Susan. You sometimes fantasize about living near Susan, staying at home, and working on your tennis serve at the club. Big law has been quite the trip, but you are ready to focus a little more on you. |
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Please tell me you write books and where I can buy them. |
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