name_story epitome of incomprehensibility I was thinking about bizarre_first_names and got a little sidetracked, thinking about how I was named. The story as I remember it goes like this: Dad wanted to call me "Naomi." Mom favoured "Kirsten." I was born with dark hair, which looked more Naomi-ish to them, but over my first few days my hair fell out and started coming in blond. This looked more Kirsten-ish, and so I was named Kirsten. 240813 ... raze i was named for a great-grandfather i never knew (i think i wrote about this on given_name a few years back), but it occurs to me now that i have no idea what my name might have been if i'd come into the world with different private parts. would i be a jennie, to carry some seed of the grandmother i didn't know long enough to mark in my memory? or would i be someone else altogether? 240813 what's it to you? who go blather from