When I was in high school I sometimes I hated my name. There were at least 8 other Michelle's in my school and that was just in my graduating class. We really didn't have an identity- not the way everyone else did. We were always "(insert random name here)'s Michelle". Or they just called you by your last name.
It only got worse when I found out my mom named me after the uncreative Beatles song (just kidding, I do love the song). It's crazy the number of people that will start singing the song you're named after. I wasn't happy being part of the status quo of child naming. I wondered why she just didn't name me "Lucy" or "Rita" if she liked the band so much. Something, anything that wasn't so effing common.
As an adult, I know my mom liked the Beatles so much, she named her only kid after a song she liked. It makes me pretty proud and her a pretty cool lady.
Of course, I went out and did the same thing. Except I choose a character on a TV show. Dark Angel was a show I really liked before I got pregnant and this is where B's name comes from. The kid thinks it pretty cool that she's named after a fictional character on a TV show that was cancelled before she was born. She's counting down the days until she can watch the show and see this person she's named after herself.
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