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Roger wrote an interesting post the other day about the process by which he and his wife arrived at their daughter’s name (“Lydia”, which is, by the way, a perfectly lovely name). A taste: *No naming after any family member, living or dead. I want her to have her own identity. And I didn’t want, “Oh, you named her after Aunt Hortense!” We’ll call her Little Horty!” No, you won’t. Actually, I would have considered Charlotte, after my great aunt Charlotte, who had died a couple years earlier, truth to tell. And my mother was living in Charlotte, NC; weDown the rabbit hole….