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I was supposed to be a boy, according to the doctors, and in that case I would have been Andrew (something)...I can't remember right off. But then when it was confirmed I was a chick, that's when the fun started. My mom and dad agreed on Sarah Elizabeth, and then at their first Lamaze class found 8 other couples w/ the same idea. Strike one. Then my mom said "How about Holly Elizabeth?" Dad said that there was a girl named Holly in his childhood that constantly pestered him (she apparently was mentally disabled, and his mom made him be nice to her...childhood memories are weird like that), so that was strike two. Then Dad said "Rachel Elizabeth?" and mom thought it sounded too much like homage to her father (who ran out on them when she was young) so definitely strike three. Mom tossed around Chloe for a while before she thought back to her time in Italy and flying over England on the way home and seeing the fields of heather. Then she took her name and Germanicized it to Susanne, so I was named Heather Susanne (after being born a whole month late!!!)
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