[MD] My 'Reel" Name

[MarshaV]

John,

I wondered at what steps you'd adopt.  Cute little dance!


Marsha 







On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:03 AM, John Carl wrote:

> "who I really am" is an endlessly amusing tale to tell, to myself and
> others.  In my case, even more so due to the extreme irony in describing my
> true name.
> 
> See, it's my mom's fault actually.  She put one thing down on my birth
> certificate, but called me something completely different my whole life
> long, even putting my nickname down in school records, etc.  Thus, even tho
> it's not my actual name, everybody who knows me calls me Cary.
> 
> I mean, I never really liked the name since it's kind of a girl's name and I
> wasn't a real macho type in my younger years, with long hair I was often
> mistaken for a girl before puberty and sometime after as well.
> 
> Maybe having an effeminate name made me more so?  Who knows.   All I know is
> I always hated it.
> 
> "Whaassyur name" some grizzled fisherman on the pier at Santa Cruz would
> inquire.  I'd answer "Cary" and he'd be, "gary?" and we'd have to go so many
> puzzled rounds it wasn't worth it.
> 
>  What could I do?  My mom insists and if anybody is in charge of naming,
> it's moms.
> 
> She picked Cary as a result of a tug-of-war between her daddy and her
> husband.  I mean, how obvious can you get, but that's my ma for ya.  Her
> daddy was Carl.  Dr. Carl Romans, MD, and her husband, John.  So she put
> "John Carl" on my birth certificate but called me "Cary" as short for "Carl"
> so everybody would know where the power actually lay in the family.  My
> grandpa Carl the Dr, winning out over my Tennessee carpenter dad.
> 
> Never had much chance to be his favorite after that, my dad not being
> stupid,  but oh well.  We get along fine today.
> 
> The interesting thing about this whole naming debacle, is that in order to
> disguise myself from the wrath of inquisitive, googling, relatives and
> acquaintences on this day of the ubiquitous facebooked life, is to simply
> disguise myself as who I actually am.
> 
> What a hoot, eh?
> 
> I could use my real name as a pseudonym because everybody who's ever met me
> knows me as a nickname.
> 
> Here's the final laugh.  The main reason my ma picked "Cary" as a nickname?
> She got a schoolgirlish crush on Cary Grant in North by Northwest when my
> dad sneaked her off campus in Loveland to take her to the movies.  And Cary
> Grant's real name is Archibald Leach!
> 
> No.  I take it back.  The final laugh consists of being able to divulge
> everything about myself that I want because I have an identity so poor, so
> low in credit, that nobody in his right mind would steal it.
> 
> That's freedom.
> 
> That's the final laugh.
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