my name was almost.....

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so what were some names that your mother almost named you? if i were a boy, i'd have been called beau david and other girl names that mom wanted were rebecca colleen (becca) and betsy jeanne. she settled on traci jeanne because on the way to the hospital, my dad was singing a song called "traces of love" to calm her down. i think that him not letting her call me betsy is about the best thing he ever did for me!

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If I were a boy, I would have been Sean Christopher.

My mom originally wanted to name me Marianne Elizabeth. She was thirty-nine when I, her first-born, was born, and she really wanted a girl, so she prayed to three of the holiest women in the Bible (Mary, mother of Jesus; Anne, mother of Mary; and Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist) and promised to name me after them if I turned out to be a girl. I did, but my dad didn't realize that she'd meant Marianne as one name, not two, and he vetoed it. So my mom had to be creative and fit it all in another way that I'd rather not disclose.

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Also, my parents were completely convinced that my brother would be a girl. They were going to name him Megan Jane (Megan because it's Irish, and both of my grandmothers' names begin with an M, and Jane because my grandmothers both have the middle name Jane).

Strangely enough, even after he popped out a boy, he didn't get Sean Christopher. His first name was one grandfather's middle name, and his middle name was the other grandfather's first name.