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| My real name is Sarah. Always has been. My mom named me after her best friend who went by Sally. Sadie and Sally are the "official" nicknames for Sarah. Both are stupid because both start with an "S," and both are two syllables. I'm not sure, then, how either improves on the efficiency of calling me out in a crowd. I've always endorsed checks as Sarah and all official documents refer to Sarah. But I grew up being called Sally because my mom thought, during our Kansas years (prior to kindergarten), that Sally was a cuter compliment to my pigtails. She fully intended for me to "go Sarah" in high school. Of course that didn't happen because everyone I knew called me Sally and they weren't going to stop just because of my mom's loony wish. |
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| When I got out into the real world and was interviewing for my first "real" job, it was just too much trouble to go through the Sally/Sarah crap with strangers whom I might never meet again. However, they did want to meet me again, and forever more in business I've been Sarah because that's what everyone sees on the paperwork and it's just too much of a bother to correct it. My family, close friends, and my daughter's teachers and friends all call me Sally. My colleagues at work and in my volunteer groups call me Sarah. I don't care which name you prefer. For whomever knew me from long ago, I think it would be weird for you to call me anything but Sally. That is just who I feel I am to my friends and family. |
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| Me with my Kansas sunflowers |
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