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[quote=Anonymous]I know this will be unpopular, and I don't care  :D

My BFF left her (now) ex husband at ~3 months pregnant. I let her move in with me and have basically been her "husband" throughout the remainder of her pregnancy. I've driven her to appointments, spent SO many nights listening to her cry, bought her baby stuff, threw her a baby shower, and helped her move everything out of her old house into her mother's house right before the baby came. This is all to say, I have personally sacrificed a lot for my friend and her baby.

Early on in the pregnancy she was toying with giving her child a name that honors her husbands subsaharan African heritage, but decided against it and decided on a very lovely name from her side of the family. Until she started to patch things up with her ex a few weeks before the due date. He wasn't at the birth and met the child a week later. She swore she wouldn't give the baby an ethnic name. She is a smart lady and knows that as a biracial child in America, the child will have a hard time with a name that is unpronounceable or difficult to spell.

That is, until the baby was born! She has decided on a 8 character African name with silent syllables, repeating consonants, and a long vowel where most people would say a short. It's difficult to spell, say, and doesn't look like how it sounds.

I know I have no skin in the game but I'm pretty upset for her child. On top of daddy issues, they are also going to have to deal with a difficult name.

Anyway, rant over  :evil: [/quote]

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