Names

[ms_petra_pan]

"jenny_ravenclaw" <meboriqua at a...> wrote: 
> When I was a child, one of my pediatricians was named Dr. Hyman 
> (she).  As I got older, I thought it would have been much more 
> fitting if she was a gynecologist.

I had a casual acquaintance named Jaime in college - never seen his 
name in print - and spent a whole quarter calling him Hyman, all the 
time wondering why his Hispanic parents gave him a Jewish last name 
for a first name.  Someone finally got fed up and told me to stop 
referring to Jaime as "that maidenhead thingy!"

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