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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When we adopted Rolph he had another name. It was a
name which my family felt unable to live with, so keeping it was not an option.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We discussed it in the car on the way home and used
his new name from that moment on. Rolph responded happily to it and never seemed
to miss his first name. As his life up until then had been pretty miserable,
perhaps he was happy to leave that name in his past. He was 2 years
old.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Six months later we adopted a little girl called
Blossom. She was three-and-a-half and had not had any real trauma in her past.
We decided she was too old to change her name.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We took her home and as she sniffed her new
queendom, I found every time I went to call her, or talk about her, her name
stuck in my throat and I found another name struggling to get out. It was a name
I would never have thought to choose - it would never have even made it on to
the list. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Within half an hour, my youngest daughter went to
call Blossom, but instead, the name "Clara" came out. It was the same name I had
been struggling not to use.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The little houndette responded immediately and
happily to that name and has NEVER answered to the name Blossom - we've
tried.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We believe she chose her own name and I cannot
imagine her having any other form of address - except , perhaps, Your
Majesty.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Sally with Pw Rolph OEBE and Clara,
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