So naming a child is a funny thing; almost every parent looks for a unique, but not unusually, alienatingly, read made-fun-of-on-the-playground-for-having-an-unintended-sexual-meaning, name. Somehow, perhaps because of whatever's in the zeitgeist, most of us end up selecting names that turn out to be the most popular of the generation, and there are so many in a classroom that their taxonomy requires numbering, Laura 1 versus Laura 3, or unique nicknames like Esquiglio Smith, even though his last name is Tanaka.
When told that our daughter's name is Penny, my aunt asked, without a scrap of irony, "why didn't you name her one hundred dollars?" (Okay, maybe a shard of irony, or at least I hope so, since my aunt is Puffy.) (Wow, I'm now imagining Puffy with a tight perm and a string of pearls....)
I dunno, Benjamin would be an odd name for a girl.
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