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So! I am, in a very tentative sense, dating a boy. Who knows if I still will be by the next time I check this post? I sure don't! But, despite the whole damn thing being up in the air all the time, last night he was very sweet and allowed me to play the "let's name B/G twins" game with him. Unfortunately, and as I suspected, he finds my taste in names totally pretentious and unworkable, but we did come up with a fairly decent list. Decent though it may be, it's still paltry, especially the boys, and I feel like there are more names out there that we didn't discuss where we might find some common ground. I know he probably doesn't want to play this game again for a while yet, but if the time ever comes, I'd like to be prepared.

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One of the major stumbling blocks is his surname. I won't write it, and I'll erase this in a minute, but it's the Spanish word for cow except with a B. Few names sound good with it.

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Girls
We basically agreed on: Irene, Claudia, Cecilia, Hortensia (his step-grandmother's name, she's called "Tensia"), Isidora
Maybes: Mary, Helen, Fernanda, Jane, Joy (Mary, Jane, Joy are honoring)
He didn't like: Pandora, Eudora, Solveig, Zephyra, Sigrid, Galilea, Galatea, Thomasina
I didn't like (but could maybe like): Constance, Lucia, Lucy

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Boys
We basically agreed on: Walter, Ivan, Isidro
Maybes: Henry, Peter, August "Auggie," Hugh/Hughes (family name for both), John, Fernando, Otis, Stanley, probably not Gustavo and Johannes but I might talk him over
He didn't like: frigging anything I threw out, but Claudio, Pandolfo, Rodolfo, Inferno, Ivanhoe, Blair, Francis, Balthazar, Wolfgang, Ludwig, Leopold, Phineas, Franz, Dmitry, Valerio, Zimri, Robert, Leonard, Carlos, Hubert, Abraham, Cygnus, Felix
I didn't like: Jorge, Emmett (he might have been joking about those)

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Anyway, I feel like I didn't have a good repertoire of names to throw out to him because I haven't been thinking about names as much. So, please, hit me! I'm pretty meh on both Walter and Ivan. He insisted that Isidore was a girl's name, which is incorrect, but suggested Isidro himself.
Gustavo and Valerio were originally his suggestions, but he was a buttface and took them back.

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Oh, I have a new cousin. Oliver Philip joins George Wilson, Estelle Josephine "Stella," and Natasha Grace. Philip is his granddad.

This message was edited 9/13/2012, 1:52 PM