When my mum was in hospital having me the woman in the next bed lost her little girl during labour. Mum gave me her name as a middle name in honour of the little lost baby and visited the mum lots and "shared" me. They were still in touch years later when mum died.

When DD was born mum had been dead just over a year, and we gave her mum's name for a middle name. It is from the Latin for "alive" which describes both my mum's nature and DD's perfectly

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