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We've talked about people who share the the same name and this reminded me of a book about a woman who takes on a journey to find other women with the same name. The book, Finding Angela Shelton, is about Angela Shelton who describes how she changed her last name to Shelton (not because of marriage but because …

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If you doubt the impact that changing a name can have on a life, consider Barack Obama. Yes, it’s true that his given name at birth was Barack. So how, you may ask, did he change his name? When he was a child everyone referred to him as Barry, the same derivative of Barack that his father chose. …

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Once a banana tree’s fruit is harvested, the harvester does what he calls, “Killing the Mother.” The harvested fruit plant is “killed” to allow for the growth of the cloned plant that is growing behind it at its roots. This happens every 90 days – the old plant is destroyed to make room for the new. Maybe that’s important …

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