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My two sisters are named Patricia and Pamela, and as children were called Patty and Pammy. Patty is still Patty now that we're adults, but Pammy has become just Pam. Their middle names both begin with a J, Jeanne and Jill. Anyway, my name is Janice Diane, and I can remember a couple of people asking me why my name doesn't begin with a P. Honestly, I don't think that my parents were trying to make a matchy sibset, and the fact that both their names begin with a P and their middle names with a J is a coincidence, if you will. Or I think that my mother maybe liked the way the P names and the J names sounded together, but it was mostly subconscious, kind of. Well, I'm just pointing out that this type of thing isn't always the result of a conscious plan, because I know my parents never thought ahead of time, "If we have daughters, their first names are going to begin with a P, and their middle names with a J." Obviously not, since mine don't.