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The Mary Sue
Sanchari Ghosh

‘Is your name meme?: Woman says her name almost caused a divorce between her parents because of its strong similarity with a motor vehicle part

User @scaredandsobbing in a video she uploaded to TikTok two days ago recounted how her parents almost got divorced over what could have been her name: Angie. But what’s so wrong with that name? As it turns out, everything but the context is very important.

Taking viewers to the time of her birth, user @scaredandsobbing said that her mother had a difficult birthing experience, one that put her and her mother’s life at risk. The atmosphere was already tense. To add to the chaos, user @scaredandsobbing mentioned that her father fainted, which only made her mother more upset. As if that wasn’t enough, her mother was told she was having a boy, but it turned out to be a girl, and she hadn’t prepared any names for a girl. Unsure of what to name her daughter, she turned to her husband for suggestions, but the name he proposed made her furious, leading her to threaten him with divorce and say she would “beat the shi* out” of him.

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