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LOL. My two younger sisters are named Patricia and Pamela, nicknamed Patty and Pam. Well, Pam became Pam as a teenager and later an adult, but as a child, she was called Pammy. My father mentioned once that when my parents named Pam, he said, "Oh Patty and Pammy. That's cute."

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They are only one year apart in age, almost exactly. Patty is the older, and she was always small for her age, so throughout most of their childhood, they were the same height. Not only that, my mother would sometimes dress them alike. A lot of people assumed they were fraternal twins, between the names, being the same size, and the dressing alike.

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The moral of this story is that they are now, and always have been, very much individuals, different from each other in many respects, although also being alike in some ways, as most siblings are. I'm like my older sister in some ways, and she's eight years older than I am and our names are nothing alike.

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Although I have often criticized sibsets for being too "matchy", I mean this only from an aesthetic point of view. I am very skeptical that a name can rob anyone of individuality.