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So I used to read a lot of Danielle Steel novels as a teenager (or... I read ALL the Danielle Steel novels, more like it), and I see Julian as a total Danielle Steel name. I remember Julian most clearly as the son of some rich American named Sarah and her noble British husband, Richard. Julian had a sister named Isabelle, one named Elizabeth who died, and I think a brother named Xavier. And their last name was Whitfield. They lived in a french Chateau, were fabulously rich, had lots of faberge eggs (Danielle Steel is obsessed with faberge eggs) and Aubusson rugs (also obsessed). So my sixteen year old self decided that Julian and Isabelle Whitfield were the most perfect names in the entire world and that they would be my children. (I still like Isabelle.) But as I got older, I started to see Julian as kind of like Danielle Steel novels: pretentious, flimsy, insubstantial.

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You didn't really need to hear all that, but I'm in a weird cabin fever mood.

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But I like Julien better, and I really like Jules. As for Thomas, I've always been mad about it. I'm with Xander on girls names, though, Katarina and Margaret definitely mesh best with Thomas.

This message was edited 2/24/2013, 4:00 PM