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frogmarch

(12,226 posts)
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:25 AM Oct 2016

A memory flash from my childhood

When I was about five, my dad and adoptive mom adopted a baby. Dad thought it only fair that Mom name the baby because he and my birth mother had named me, and my older half-sister was named by her father and our birth mother.

Mom’s first name was Mary and her best friend’s name was Frances, and Mom asked my sister and me what we’d think of the name Mary Frances for the baby.

I remember saying, “What about Frances Mary instead?”

Mom, a staunch Presbyterian who strongly disliked Catholics, said, “Francis Mary sounds like a nun’s name! I don’t want you girls to have to say, “This is our sister Frances Mary!”

The baby was named Mary Frances.

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A memory flash from my childhood (Original Post) frogmarch Oct 2016 OP
LOL! As a Huguenot desendent HAB911 Oct 2016 #1
She'd have appreciated frogmarch Oct 2016 #4
Sister Mary Frances sounds like a nun too! AlbertCat Oct 2016 #2
uh-oh frogmarch Oct 2016 #3
Heliotrope! AlbertCat Oct 2016 #5
Yep! frogmarch Oct 2016 #6

frogmarch

(12,226 posts)
4. She'd have appreciated
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:20 AM
Oct 2016

it.

I have to say, though, that Mom came to adore President Kennedy and wept when he died.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
2. Sister Mary Frances sounds like a nun too!
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 09:48 AM
Oct 2016

Shoulda gone with a Greek name....

Phyllis
Alexandra
Chloe
Thalassa
Diana

I like flowers as names too

Rose
Lily
Daisy
Heliotrope....

OK, maybe Heliotrope is going too far....

frogmarch

(12,226 posts)
3. uh-oh
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:17 AM
Oct 2016

Oh, well, since she is half Japanese, as an adult she changed her first name to Aiko, which means "love child." Good name. I like it too.

I want to change mine to Heliotrope!

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