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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2613929" data-attributes="member: 99">Unlike most folks these days, we opted not to find out the gender of our child in advance of her birth (I make no value judgement here.  It's just what we did.).  As such we had picked out both boy and girl names.The boy name we struggled with at length.  We both liked Jacob as a first name but we battled over the middle name for some time.  I don't recall what stupid name my lovely wife wanted but I recall that I liked it a lot less than the cool name that I'd picked out: Beowulf.  Jacob Beowulf.  What a totally badass name that would have been.  But my wife absolutely insisted that Beowulf not be his name.  She was named by hippies and while I think her name (Morgana Talltree) is completely wicked, she had to endure a lot of teasing growing up.So we were still undecided on the middle name when I went off on a scuba diving trip about 3 months before the due date.  There I was one night, sitting on a boat off the Florida Keys after a night dive and looking up at the stars and it came to me:  Orion.  Jacob Orion.  Home I went with my awesome new name.My wife met me at the door with a hug and a kiss and the announcement that she had thought of a boy name and I told her that I had too.  Then I said, "You go first."  And she says to me, "Jacob Orion."  Stunned I was.  Stunned and certain that this was a sign from almighty GAWD that he was sending me the son that I'd always wanted......and then we had a girl and named her Samantha Rose like we'd always planned and I fell instantly and completely in love with her for the rest of my life and forgot all about ever wanting anything but this perfect, wonderful little girl.The one interesting thing about my daughters name is that we always envisioned that we would call her "Sam" for short but since day one she has been a "Samantha" and we've never taken to shortening it.</blockquote>

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