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Stephanie would have been my name if my mother had named me without my father's input. It was her favorite, but my father refused to consider it because he had a brother named Steven who died at age 10.

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I think I would have been a good Stephanie, and I really like the name. It's elegant and feminine and manages to have strong consonant sounds--ST, PH, N--but still sound light and pretty.

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Funnily enough, my brother's wife is Stephanie, so my mother did end up with a daughter named Stephanie after all.

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