#522 - V is for Veronica

any of a genus (Veronica) of annual or perennial herbs of the snapdragon family that have small pink, white, blue or purple flowers with a 4- or 5-lobed calyx, a rotate corolla, two stamens, and the fruit a compressed capsule

I don't know that I've ever shared this on my blog,

but my parents didn't name me.

According to my mother, they were really expecting that I would be a boy.

Mind you, this was in the days before finding out the sex

of a baby via ultrasound was commonplace.

So when I was born, and

disappointingly a girl,

they didn't have a name ready.

My mother stated that she was at a loss.

She asked her OB,

an old Jewish doctor,

what did he think.

He said, "She looks like a Veronica."

And, so I was named.

And, no middle name because 

"my name was too long to begin with."

Yeah... it was like that...