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SQUIRE SEBASTIAN SENATOR
The unidentified woman’s Facebook message to her invitees appeared on Reddit on Dec. 7 after her heated response went viral.
02of 04ABCDEGettyMom Traci Redford toldABC7in November that she and her 5-year-old daughter Abcde (pronounced “ab-city”) were boarding a plane when the Southwest gate agent noticed Abcde’s distinctive moniker.“The gate agentstarted mocking my child’s name, laughing, pointing at me and my daughter and talking to other employees,” she said. “So I turned around and just said, ‘Hey, I can hear you, so if I can hear you, my daughter can, too. I’d appreciate it if you’d just stop.’ “Abcde did not understand why she was the subject of the joke, her mom says. “She asked me, ‘Mom, why is she laughing at my name?’ " Redford recalled. “And I said, ‘You know, honey, not everybody is nice, and not everyone is going to be nice, and it’s unfortunate.’ "
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Mom Traci Redford toldABC7in November that she and her 5-year-old daughter Abcde (pronounced “ab-city”) were boarding a plane when the Southwest gate agent noticed Abcde’s distinctive moniker.
“The gate agentstarted mocking my child’s name, laughing, pointing at me and my daughter and talking to other employees,” she said. “So I turned around and just said, ‘Hey, I can hear you, so if I can hear you, my daughter can, too. I’d appreciate it if you’d just stop.’ "
Abcde did not understand why she was the subject of the joke, her mom says. “She asked me, ‘Mom, why is she laughing at my name?’ " Redford recalled. “And I said, ‘You know, honey, not everybody is nice, and not everyone is going to be nice, and it’s unfortunate.’ "
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KELVIN
Sandstrom recalled returning to the tattoo artist’s studio immediately to inform them of the mistake (spelled “Kelvin”), but was told laser surgery would be the only solution — so shedecided to change her son’s name to match the art.
“I had never heard the name ‘Kelvin’ before. There isn’t anyone who names their kid Kelvin,” Sandstrom explained toBlekinge Lans Tidning. “So when I thought more about it, I realized that no one else has this name. It became unique. Now we think it is better than Kevin.”
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ATTICUS
After reading Harper Lee’s more newly published novelGo Set a Watchman, in which the beloved character is exposed as a racist who once attended a Klan meeting, they had a change of heart — and a change of name.
“When the new book came out, we just felt like, this does not at all encompass the values that we want for our son to have and know,” Christen told PEOPLE n 2015. “And we felt like our son was young enough that we could change his name.”
source: people.com
