Given Names

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In a message dated 12/20/2005 1:36:59 P.M. Central Standard Time, auntyemfaustus@... writes: Another common coincidence is when a man or woman lost a spouse they would re-marry and the second spouse would have the same given name as the first spouse. When my parents divorced my dad married an Esperanza and my mom's name is Esperanza, when my Padrino in Ensenada lost his first wife Berta, he married again to another Berta and I have found several cases in my research of widows or widowers who re-married and married someone with the same given name as their first spouse. Could this be coincidence? Alicia Carrillo San Jose, Ca I think my mother was nuts - her name is Esperanza, she named her first daughter "Linda Esperanza", named her 2nd daughter Maria Norberta (after a grandmother), and then seemed to have forgotten names....naming me Esperanza. I have a niece whose name is Hope (she lives in Canada) and another niece whose middle name is Esperanza. In fact, when I married my husband (javier), his sister's name is Esperanza who was also married to a Javier. Yikes---I tell people my alias is Maria Smith - makes it easier to pronounce -- just kidding -- I would never allow anyone to call me outside of my full name. Esperanza