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To: TigersEye
A doctor I know told me that when he was doing his residency he and the other young residents would make up names for the kids of these young single mothers who hadn’t given it a single thought.

In the book Unintended Consequences, there was a character, a federal agent, named Gonorrhea Gladly (GG for short). The back-story was she was born in a hospital where resident doctors had taken to suggesting really stupid names for the babies. The mother didn't know what gonorrhea was.

73 posted on 06/30/2017 7:43:55 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I recently got done rereading Unintended Consequences.

The last one third of the book is, IMO, the Great American Novel.


77 posted on 06/30/2017 12:37:46 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan
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To: IYAS9YAS; T-Bone Texan

I can hardly believe it has been over twenty years since I read that.
So long that I forgot all about Gonorrhea Gladly.


79 posted on 06/30/2017 1:06:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Investigate the Awan brothers and Wasserman Schultz)
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