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Aug 04, 2006 18:11

"The naming of children," writes historian Daniel Scott Smith, "is culturally never a trivial act." This was specially so among the Puritans. One of their ministers declared, "… a good name is as a thread tyed about the finger, to make us mindful of the errand we came into the world to do for our master."

The Puritan families of Massachusetts named ( Read more... )

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w00t11 August 5 2006, 07:54:22 UTC
Kitty(ie?). Seriously. Put down that flaming Dr. Pepper and sober up and do some actual work. You've been partying way too much this summer, I can tell.

Damn kids.

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