I’m the 4th child in my family. I recently learned the history of my name. When we were being discharged from the maternity ward,
my parents had this conversation with the lady at the desk: ‘What name do you want to register for your child?’ ‘What can you advise? We have 3 kids.’ ‘Well, we haven’t had any Harrys in the past 6 months.’ ‘Great! That’s the name, then!’
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