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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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[chaichilaquiles.livejournal.com]

Where are the Sarahs? Or should I say, Saras? Ensue age old debate about the correct spelling, with or without the "h"!
And the Sara(h) Elizabeths? Must've been a common combo in the 80's as well.
And being one of four Sara(h)s in the class... ha, Sara(h) doesn't have any nickname options for you! So guess you'll be going by your name with your last name initial. Or worse.. Sarah 1 and Sara 2. Or Sarah with the "h" or Sara without the "h".

You can tell I don't like my name. It didn't even fit me. "Princess" I have always been a bit of tomboy and my father would call me princess only in the sense of being a spoiled brat and not in an admiring way. But that's fine. As soon as I went off to college I started going by my middle name Elizabeth and "Eli" for short. She's a queen. That fits me much better.

I also want to echo the importance of the meaning behind a name. We can be 99.99 percent sure our kids will hate the names we give them for being too unique or too common or for a million other reasons. But when they come to you and ask, and they will, why you chose the name you did, make sure you have something meaningful to tell them. Not just "I just liked it". It doesn't have to be the meaning of the name.. it could be who they were named after, because you had a dream, or any number of reasons.