Sure! My name was Esther, and I guess I changed it because I got a lot of teasing at school. I grew up in a city called Chester (never live somewhere that rhymes with your name!) and there's a talk show host in the UK called Esther Rantzen...it's not a flattering comparison to hear when you're 7 or 8 (I guess the US equivalent would be being called Oprah). I imagine it was those things that originally made me dislike it, but I can't remember ever liking the name or feeling like it fit me. I've gone by my middles for almost ten years, and the reason why I legally changed it was because I had a lot of name confusion problems once I started college, so it seemed like the next logical step.
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Date: 2006-07-05 01:22 pm (UTC)