My father was a teacher and swore he never had a dumb Elizabeth, so my name was chosen years before I arrived. But when I was born my great grandmother asked if I was named after her sister Elizabeth. Dad said no, he didn't even know she had a sister with that name. "Good! She was a real b****!" I think it was the only time my father heard his grandmother use that word!

My daughter is named after my great aunt Eleanor, nicknamed Eno. My parents have a cat named Eno. When I first sugested Eleanor as our daughter's name, Big Scary Man thought I was saying we should name her after the cat!

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