Her great grandfather was in France in WWI and somehow fell in love with her name, but it took 40 years for him to get anyone in the family to use it, and then the spelling challenged them. To her, the name seemed exotic and foreign from her south Alabama home, so she loved it. That is, until later in life when she learned that it meant “eggplant” in French and was correctly spelled “aubergine”. She hates eggplant, so now she introduces herself as “Just Jean”.
(a PJH story)
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