[quote=Airwick156]My name is Deanna. I was named after Deanna Durbin if you know who she is. She was an actress way back when.
---------------------------------Yes, I know who she was, and even now I go to YouTube and listen again to that glorious voice singing Danny Boy!!!
And as for fighting your way through school, try going during the 40s with the name of Violet Byrd..with the middle name of Elsie (named for both Mom and Dads' sisters) and at that time Elsie the Borden Cow was a very public advertising ad, and I was never skinny!!!
and I had a sister Vivian Blue Byrd!!! And a brother Victor Herbert (favorite musician of Dad's, who with his brothers made gospel records).
We weren't raised together but both of us had the same history of being taunted by Bird Brain, Bird legs (in our case, with German Grandparents, we were no way near skinny). We were all careful to name our kids easy to remember names. But one of my DDs named her daughter from a book she was reading when expecting...Faustina Rene. Who is now a Texas RN and seems resigned to being called either Rene` or Faustina, depending on who does the calling.
I use the name of my late sister for a "screen name" and even she was named for the movie Ramona, which Mom loved. She would go around the house singing it, wish I could have inherited some musical ability.