becomingkate

I'm named after my mom's aunt, who was a really lovely lady. She had a daughter who had spina bifida who died shortly after birth, and I have spina bifida, so I was probably more special to her than I realized at my young age. She died when I was 7 or 8, probably. We still go to her old house (now her daughter owns it) for our "cousins" reunion every year. I loved her and her husband but I have some major guilt associated with her husband, who is also deceased. I was a bit older when he passed away, and he had Alzheimer's and frankly that scared me. I avoided him because I didn't know how to deal with it, and then he died. I still feel terrible about that.

Sooo anyway, I love my middle name (which is Jean, by the way). And I think it's cool that my husband has the same middle name, but it's the French pronounciation.