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I, I just, I just, I'm smart, I'm nice, I have good values, just give me, I'm not driven by fashion but I don't like unfashionable names, I just, I just want a name that, can you just give me a, I just, please, can I, Adeline? with the very fake nickname of Ada? Like Ada Garbot or whatever her name is? You know, old hollywood? When things were clear and women were beautiful? When girls were girls and men were men? Adeline, that's not, that's not a fake name, right? It's ok because it's not addison. It's also not a real name, like Margaret. It's a name I haven't heard before. It's unique enough to be a brand name, and even though I'm, even though I shop at whole foods, I secretly want to name my, my child, a brand name, and so, Adeline, Yes. This is the name for me! I am disoriented, disenchanted, potentially creative, trying, and my daughter's name is Adeline but we call her Ada in order to indulge some weird anxieties.

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I find it disappointing and totally unstimulating. Adeline should be the nickname for Ada! Why don't people do elaborations as nicknames anymore? Nns aren't about convenience, they're not chatspeak, they're about affection! I like it when Dean calls me Emmeline. It makes my heart flutter, it makes me so happy! I'm so glad my name isn't Emmeline, so he has the opportunity to do that. What if my name were Emmeline, and Emma was just the lazy nickname, and people called me Emmeline when they were trying to be serious and formal? It would be dumb, that's what.

This message was edited 6/9/2013, 10:11 PM