Previously, for the length of my existence, I was one of the people who loathed the very essence of the name Ryan... but I am now comfortably able to announce that tiny flower-buds of promise have begun to bloom. It is a name that must be spoken and heard to gain admiration; I still can barely bring myself to read it, confessedly.Ryan, masculine, I approve of; Ryanne (or other hideous 'kre8tiv' versions), feminine, is terribly bothersome.- Francesca