Our names were made for us in another century.

Richard Brautigan
Our names were made for us in another century.
Our names were made for us in another century.
Our names were made for us in another century.
Our names were made for us in another century.
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Our names were made for us in another century. We didn’t name ourselves. Our parents named us. Our names are not our own, they are the names of our parents, who often found their parents’ names on rolls of parchment.

We all have ancestors back before the written word was used to record history. Our past is not our own, it belongs to our ancestors and they are forgotten as we live through different times and places.

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