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What is YOUR name?

Do you like it?

Have you ever wished you had a different name?  What was it?

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[roxtarrr.livejournal.com]

My full name is Catherine Christina. I always wanted my first name to be Christina because it seemed much more young and fun than Catherine. Catherine always seemed like such a "big" name to me.

I had a teacher when I was 9 that called me Kate and an aunt that called me Katie, but I couldn't figure out how they got those from Catherine even though I liked them. I thought they were wrong but it did get in my head that I could use a nickname, so I started going by Cathy and eventually Cathee (which I've used for the past 10 years). Now I wish I had stuck with Catherine but nobody calls me that except my family.

Other than the nickname I never really put that much thought into what I'd prefer to have been named but every once in a while my mother will tell me she wishes she had named me Emma, Grace or Ruth. Recently she told me Millicent nn Millie. Love all those names and wouldn't have minded being called any of them but I always tell her "Don't worry, you still gave me an old lady name"