I recently reread one of my favorite short pieces to use with students: "My Name" by Sandra Cisneros from House on Mango Street. I especially love this part about Esperanza changing her name:
I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees. Esperanza as Lisandra or Maritza or Zeze the X. Yes. Something like Zeze the X will do.
We've been playing around with names for the baby. Any child with "the X" as a middle name is sure to have an interesting life. William the X. Sophia the X. Yes. I think something with the X will do.
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What a great post for X. And you (or I) thought it was going to be difficult.
I'm sad that you'll be done with your challenge and probably fall off the cyber-face of the earth again. Can someone issue another challenge to my seemingly-passive-but-actually-quite-competitive sister?
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