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What's in a bat-crap-crazy name?

Should the state prevent parents from giving their kids humiliating names?
Kate Harding

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  • Friday, July 25, 2008 12:15 PM

    Cianci

    Cianci is a fairly common surname in Providence. (Indeed, one of Providence's better-known mayors was named Cianci.) Unfortunately for her, a young woman with that surname who graduated from my high school a few years before me had the otherwise quite conventional name Nancy Ann.

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