My cousin and her DP have just had their first baby together (she already has three sons, it's her DP's first).
Cute little thing, very sweet.
They've called her Thirteen.
Thirteen
Apparently this is because she was born in 2013 and cousin's birthday is on the 13th of June. I'm sure they think they're very unique and interesting, and yet I can't help feeling that they have forgotten that they're naming a person. Someone who has to go to school and introduce herself as Thirteen. Someone who has to apply for university as Thirteen. Someone who has to, every time she says her name for the next (hopefully) eight or nine decades, put up with a confused pause followed by '... Thirteen?!'.
I know name snobbery gets bashed on MN and I'm fully prepared to be told it's a beautiful, unique signifier and that no one will ever bully her for it but seriously... Fucking Thirteen?!
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To think this really isn't a bloody name?
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ballinacup · 23/04/2013 10:27
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