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From: "Clare Higgins" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-IRISH] Unusual First Names
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 13:30:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <BAY113-F285E716D70FDED89D224AABCFC0@phx.gbl>


My great-aunt married a guy named O'Sullivan and they had one child, a girl
they named Maureen. My GA's mother's name was Mary so maybe it was meant as
a variation of that.

But when little Maureen O'Sullivan grew up, along came the actress with the
same name, and everyone teased her so much about it that she got totally fed
up and legally changed her name to Justine. But she eventually married a
guy named Sharkey - clearly she didn't look far ahead! Oh, well, Justine's a
perfectly nice name.

Clare


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