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I've never done this before, so if I mess it up, sorry!
Please bold new names to make it easier for everyone!

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The Morgan Family
DH: Benjamin Lucas Morgan (25)
DW: Belinda Sokolov (23)
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Ben and Belinda are a young couple living in an old house outside New Orleans. He is a bartender and she helps run a New Age shop. They have been married for four years, and have a three year old daughter. They just welcomed a new son. Belinda named her daughter after a powerful mythical female character. Ben wanted a traditional American first name for his son, but agreed that both children's middle names could be after Belinda's Russian grandparents- both are four syllable Russian names.

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The Hunter Family
DH: James Andrew Hunter (44)
DW: Virginia May Breen (37)
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James is a professor of English literature at an Ivy League university. He met Virginia when she was hired as a librarian in the rare books section of the library. They bonded over their mutual love of literature and eventually married. They have been married nine years. Their son was named after the title character of a famous English novel , and his middle name is in the top 25 American boy's names . Their daughter was an unexpected but happy surprise. Her name is more traditional- it was in the top 50 in 1945. Her middle name is the name of a flower.

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The Landau Family
DH: Joseph Levi Landau (36)
DW: Deborah Miriam Friedman (34)
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Joseph is an NYPD police officer, like the last three generations of men in his family. His wife, Deborah, is a ballet instructor. They have one daughter, who has just decided that she wants to be a police officer too, much to her father's pride and mother's chagrin. Her first name is a long female name with a one-syllable unisex nickname . Her middle name is a Jewish name as a tribute to her family's ethnicity/faith.

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The Morales Family
DH: Francis "Frank" Antonio Morales (27)
DW: Sunny Elizabeth Delgado (26)
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Frank and Sunny met when they were in high school in a small town in New Jersey and married not long after. Frank is a second-generation American, his grandparents having immigrated from Mexico. Sunny was raised by her grandmother, and they lived a bohemian lifestyle on the road for most of her childhood before settling down in New Jersey. About two years after they married, Sunny became pregnant with triplets. Frank works as an auto mechanic, and Sunny is a writer. Their sons' first and middle names are in the bottom 500 of the top 1000 from 2017. Their daughter has two tribute names- her first name is after Sunny's grandmother, and is a vintage name that has made the top 50 for 2017 ; her middle name is after Frank's mother, and is a Spanish name that starts with a vowel .

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This message was edited 9/18/2018, 4:00 PM