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most popular names for babies in 1888:
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i hope minnie makes a comeback.
or at least, fuck madison, right?
also, this is alyssum:
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whenever anyone asks where my names comes from, i answer as honestly as the information that my mother has provided me - the television, little house on the prairie, to be exact. turns out it's really from this purple flower. when i looked up michael's name, the website asked me -
"who is like God?"
apparently "michael" is the leader of heaven's armies and thusly considered the patron saint of soldiers.
mmhmm, just as as i suspected - an angel
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