The meaning of my name; Richard

[Rachel Bray]

First off.....that comment from Richard was shocking.  Never in my time 
being on this list have I ever read anything so hateful....so cruel.....so 
uncompassionate and sad.  I'm rather speechless and though I am not a 
lesbian, I feel like I've been slapped in the face.  I mean....I guess in my 32 
years of life, being raised in a Christian household...it never dawned on me 
that God created things for the sheer purpose of killing them.

Anyway......

Rachel means "Lamb of God"

My parents made up my middle name Malon so there's not meaning in it 
except I'm relieved I wasn't named Moonbeam or Starburst (parents were 
hippies...I was also born in 1969, a time several of my peers got REALLY 
weird names when they were born).

My maiden name is Lewis and when I was in England with the youth choir 
in 1988, Lord (forgot his name) approached me when we were done with our 
concert in Salisbury and said that he noticed my last name was Lewis and 
did I know about the connection of Lewis and the British.  I said that I 
wasn't aware of anything more than it being a very Welsh surname and that 
my family was from Swansea.  He then told me the following:

L- London
E- England
W- Wales
I- Ireland
S- Scotland

I thought that was charming.



Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
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