I love the name Leander! If God grants me multiple sons (ha!), the third or fourth will be Leander (got to a couple other names in first
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I LOVE that name too!! It does always remind me of "Magic for Marigold" though:
"If Leander's name had been almost anything else she might have been named for her father," said Great-Uncle Walter. "Roberta-- Georgina--Johanna--Andrea--Stephanie--Wilhelmina--"
"Or Davidena," said Uncle Klon. But Great-Uncle Walter ignored him.
"You can't make anything out of a name like LEANDER. Whatever did you call him that for, Marian?"
"His grandfather named him after him who swam the Hellespont," said Young Grandmother as rebukingly as if she had not, thirty-five years before, cried all one night because Old Grandfather had given her baby such a horrid name.
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"If Leander's name had been almost anything else she might have
been named for her father," said Great-Uncle Walter. "Roberta--
Georgina--Johanna--Andrea--Stephanie--Wilhelmina--"
"Or Davidena," said Uncle Klon. But Great-Uncle Walter ignored
him.
"You can't make anything out of a name like LEANDER. Whatever did
you call him that for, Marian?"
"His grandfather named him after him who swam the Hellespont," said
Young Grandmother as rebukingly as if she had not, thirty-five
years before, cried all one night because Old Grandfather had given
her baby such a horrid name.
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