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Each day before breakfast, Mom would pull out a "piece of bread" and read a scripture to her children that would guide them through the day. In that same tradition, on Monday and Friday of each week, I'll post a new snippet (excerpt) from the book in hopes that you will begin and end each week with a smile so feel free to bookmark this page and regularly!

The boy with a girl's name

11/8/2017

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The beginning of the end began when I was born. My name is Dana, a strange name for a boy but it’s the name my mother wanted me to own. Apparently, there was a male actor named Dana and she liked the name. At the same time and for reasons unknown to me, many other mothers were busy naming their daughters “Dana” as well. This happened so frequently that most people I’d encounter wondered why I had a girl’s name. I wondered the same thing. Just once I wanted to meet another boy named Dana but in the entirety of my childhood, that would never happen.  I would, however experience opportunity after opportunity to feel self-conscious about my name. 

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