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Re:Once Teased for Her Name, Marijuana Pepsi Turns Her Chall... by allannienhuis on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:10PM (#20258009)
But your name is something you have the ability to change once you're an adult (and even earlier in some cases if you insist on being called by a preferred name or nickname).

You don't have the ability to change how someone (everyone?) else reacts to an unusual name.

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Re:Once Teased for Her Name, Marijuana Pepsi Turns Her Chall... by princekolt on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:12PM (#20258018)
Literally the last paragraph:

"We can't always go through life-changing things to make other people happy ... and I had to learn that early on."

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