The name game

Hirtopolis has a new citizen named Zoe. When registering her birth, I was amused to find strict naming requirements:

• must consist only of the letters “a” to “z”, hyphens and apostrophes
• may include accents as long as they are found in French (so ç and ý are okay, but not ã or ÿ)
• “if the mother or father or both have a hyphenated or combined surname, only one of the names in that surname or those surnames must be used” (so no John Doe-Smith-Buchanan-Fredericks)

How far I’ve come

Just stumbled upon this story, composed during my high school days. Seemed appropriate to share given our own upcoming addition to the family…

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At one point during my youth, our family lived in the quaint community of Oak Bay, New Brunwick.