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THE SLICE
Here, courtesy of Slice reader Sue Brown, is a memorable scene from a local hospital.
The patient was a young, first-time mother-to-be. She was alone in the labor/delivery area, so the staff was giving her plenty of TLC.
“The subject of what she was naming the baby girl came up,” wrote Brown.
The young woman said she had come up with something original. She had discovered it while reading.
“Proudly, she shared the name, then spelled it out,” wrote Brown. ” ‘A-R-E-O-L-A.’ “
Yikes. Suspecting that a child named after the area around the nipple might not have the easiest life, the staff cheerfully suggested alternatives.
And by the time the name made its way to the birth certificate, enough letters had been changed that it no longer resembled a term lifted from a breast-feeding pamphlet.
Paul Turner