Re: Re: mulch NOW Names

Always wondered what the A stood for.  Cool.
Hodges Female??  But your family is a tad odd dear.

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea H
Sent: 5/13/2004 7:39:12 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] mulch NOW Names

> At least y'all got names. I was "Hodges Female" for several days.
> Apparently, I was supposed to be a boy (although there was no such thing as
> ultrasound so I guess my mom had a vision or something) and my name was
> Jeffery Devon. When I turned out to be a girl they were stumped. Now I'm
> Andrea Alane. I was telling Zem I think they should have gone with something
> more daring, like my one of my ancestors named Texanna or something. ;-)
> 
> Andrea H
> Beaufort, SC
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 12:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] mulch NOW Names
> 
> 
> > Well, just do like I did...change your name legally.  I never felt like a
> Susan either.
> >
> >
> > Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
> > In a message dated 05/13/2004 9:12:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > Zemuly@aol.com writes:
> >
> > > For many generations in my father's family the first daughter was given
> the
> > >
> > > name of both her paternal and maternal grandmothers.
> >
> > Same here, Zem. When I was born I was named for my two maternal
> grandmothers
> > - Martha Grace. But when my mother died five months later they changed my
> > birth certificate to show her name, Auralie. Now the story was that her
> > father, Grace's husband, had named her for his first love who he claimed
> was the
> > most beautiful woman he ever saw. Grace was no beauty even when she was
> young.
> > Then twenty years later my father, with a second wife, had another
> daughter,
> > and again named her for the two maternal grandmothers - Martha Jean. I
> have
> > never quite gotten over that - I felt that they gave her my name and that
> I was
> > a non-person to my father's family. I know, intellectually, that was not
> > true, but that's the way I felt then. And I always felt much more like a
> Martha
> > than like an Auralie, especially since Grace never failed to assure me
> that I
> > was no match for either of the earlier Auralies.
> > Oh well. It just made me tougher and more determined to be myself.
> > Names have strange powers, don't they. A rose by any other name might be a
> > real stinker.
> >
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