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From: marla@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.social
Subject: Re: Naming - letting the kids choose their own names
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Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 19:37:14 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 19:37:14 1984
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In response to Avi's article about naming their children after
relatives, in my household, I am also Jewish, all the children are
named after someone who has died.  This is done by giving them the
same initials, NOT the same name.  I was named Marla Susan, Marla
after my father's mother Molly, and Susan after both grandfathers -
Sam.  The reason this was done, as I had it explained to me, was to
remind me, and others of those who had died, and in some small way
keep their memory alive.  I intend to name my first child in honor
of my father Arthur, who died when I was 16.

Marla S. Baer
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