My stepbrother's name is Derek, so sometimes when my dad and his mom want to talk to both of us, they say, "Hey, Dereka!" (Or would it be Derica? Hmmmm...) It's basically a family in-joke.
I minded being called Eric in school, though (and really that was just one of many, many taunts - middle school especially was not a good time for me), because I really was quite girly; I just hated hair pieces pulling on my scalp and didn't like makeup back then, mostly because I didn't really know how to use it.
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