By Meghan Dimmick

Meghan Dimmick lives in Ontario, Canada with her family. She has many suspicions about the true power of words and had a very hard time naming her children.


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Dolores

  Dolores wanted to name her Joy, but he wouldn’t have it. He said Joy wasn’t a name; it was an emotion. She said that was exactly the point. She wanted to mark her daughter the same way her mother had marked her, but not to wallow, disheartened and overwhelmed, but to bubble rapidly, burst…