"Have you updated your wish list for the holidays?" Tonight Rachel did. Then she checked out my wish list for good measure. "21 Jonathan Ellises!" she exclaimed. "What a common name!"
Rachel has a thing about common names. She still hasn't quite forgiven me for changing her name from what was probably the only Rachel Sinden in the country. (But on the other hand she doesn't like it when parents make up new names for their kids, either. It's really hard to win this game.)
I pointed out that, really, Ellis isn't that bad. "Try John Brown," I suggested. Rachel was skeptical that there could be anything much worse than Jonathan Ellis.
There were 368 John Browns.
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