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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A little OT but the repetitive name thing reminded me...

I know a couple who lost their DD, named Alice, to pediatric cancer when she was 8. The couple’s marriage couldn’t survive the tragedy and they divorced. The husband married a second wife and they got pregnant with a DD ... that that named Alice. Allegedly it was the new wife’s favorite name and she always wanted to name a daughter Alice. And the husband went along with it. I can’t imagine how the first wife, grieved mother of the original little Alice felt :([/quote]

Ugh. Naming her after the first child might have been nice, but to name the same name is a bit much.

Once I was in a cemetary in Boston and saw a family gravesite from the late 1600s or early 1700s that had multiple kids who died in infancy, all named Elizabeth. Seriously, they kept having baby girls and naming them Elizabeth and they kept dying. At least three of them. They finally had a girl who lived past infancy and she was not named Elizabeth. I like to think they bought a clue after the third child died. But I've no idea what colonial naming traditions were like. It was pretty striking to read though.[/quote]

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