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  • Diana Joy
    • Apr 2, 2019
    • 1 min read

Where Did You Get That Name?


I was born with my first and second names

and my first last name

gifted from my mother and father

my second and third last names

were borrowed from men

the third last name I kept

because it is pretty

Where did you get that name?

Did you choose it yourself?

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