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tools for commensality ๐Ÿงฟ · 3w
question: do people feel a strong effect of their given name (including affinity for it, or dislike of or detachment from it)? does this effect leave a big impression on your life? if you changed your...
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@nprofile1q... When I was a young boy I hated my rather peculiar and uncommon name. I wanted to be called anything else back then.

But as I grew up, the name became an extension of my being so to speak. So much so that now I wouldn't want to be called anything else.

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But here's a funny story... (I think I will need another post... After I was already an adult, married, with children, there was a very famous politician in the island with the same peculiar first name I have...

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afreytes ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ท · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqp02cwwsdl4ckwfh59nzwe4jt8pddtwfh53t5e2ycj8gq4a3q9faq0wt3mw Everyone on the island hated them when they were a politician. And when they got out of politics everyone liked them even more than when they were in politics. Now, whenever I am asked ...