December 2008
2 posts
I love writing about names
In the beginning, the girl they called Gina was actually named Eugenia, a name that originated from the feminization of Eugene, meaning well-born, noble, great. Eugenics is frowned upon, the maximization of gene potential synonymous with Hitler’s Aryan race, but if there was ever to be a perfect human subspecies, Eugenia would be the name of the first perfect woman.
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By the time the year 1988 AD rolled around, the name Jennifer had dropped to number five on the list of most popular baby names for newborn girls, usurped of the lofty position of number one it had held for a record fourteen years. Her alphabetical neighbor, Jessica, had finally wrestled the position of foremost on most mothers’ minds in 1985 and from then on it was a slow descent down the top...