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Toffeepud's avatar

I'm so sorry your name has been turned into a slur. My maiden name was an old fashioned term in the UK for an idiot. I feel your pain.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

I asked Siri and he came up with a ton of words for idiot. Dang, sorry about that. It’s harder when you’re a kid.

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Cafe Comments by Lauri Harris's avatar

In a book from the late 1800’s that I read a few years ago, described that many parents named their daughters Karen because the name sounded like caring and they wanted to bless future generations of their families with caring women.

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Karen Bandy's avatar

That is so cool, I hadn’t thought about Karen in that way. Duh ☺️

It’s a derivative of Katherine and there’s a long line of them in history of course, and in my family.

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Cafe Comments by Lauri Harris's avatar

Wow! That’s wonderful. What a beautiful legacy.

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