Um, thanks, ” Jackson told her. “And your name is…?”“ I’m Margaret, Margaret Van Der Graaf, ” she answered with another eerie smile. Her teeth were so white that they looked bleached.“ Van Der Graaf?” Jackson repeated, trying to stifle his laughter. He didn’t want to be rude to the only person in sight, to this kind-hearted stranger who was offering to help him, but… Van Der Graaf?“What are you laughing at?” Margaret asked with curiosity, flashing him a calculating gaze. “I like my name. If you’re going to be a jerk, then I won’t help you. You can stay out here on the street through the night for all I care.”“… Harsh, ” said Jackson, giving her a quizzical glance back. There was something ‘off’ about her, something that Jackson couldn’t quite place, something that bordered on horrible loneliness and longing. “Who else lives here, Margaret Van Der Graaf?” He couldn’t resist saying her name aloud. Despite its hilarity, it had a nice ring to it. “Who else lives here?” he urged.“ Me, myself and I, ” said Margaret simply, snickering when she saw his horrified and annoyed expression . Rebecca McNutt
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The name Margaret Van Der Graaf is a Dutch feminine, originally a patronymic surname. It was the name of a person who used to be called Margaret Theodora Van Der Graaf (Theodora meaning ‘gift’ in Dutch). The name comes from the fact that she was born on March 15, 1744 as Theodora Isabella Maria van der Graaf. She was raised in Haarlem and married Jacobus Johannes Theodorus van der Graaf, a wealthy landowner and member of the city council.

Her husband died in 1792 and she subsequently remarried Jacobus Godfried Bleichroeder, someone she knew from the Haarlem town council. After her death, she was buried at the Protestant Cemetery in the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in Haarlem.

Source: Three Little Ghostly Operatives

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