Perhaps I have my mother to thank for my love of flowers. After all, she did name me 花子 (HanaKo) which literally means ‘flower’ (花) - ‘child’ (子). My parents had been planning to move to Japan, where my mom spent most of her young adulthood, and I suppose they figured the name might make the transition easier, despite it being an incredibly old-fashioned name in Japanese. It would be like naming your daughter Millicent or Gertrude - practically unheard of in the Millenial generation. But my dad liked the biblical name Hannah and this Japanese variant seemed to suit, so here I am, a blonde haired, blue-eyed Californian with an ancient Japanese name.
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Perhaps I have my mother to thank for my love of flowers. After all, she did name me 花子 (HanaKo) which literally means ‘flower’ (花) - ‘child’ (子). My parents had been planning to move to Japan, where my mom spent most of her young adulthood, and I suppose they figured the name might make the transition easier, despite it being an incredibly old-fashioned name in Japanese. It would be like naming your daughter Millicent or Gertrude - practically unheard of in the Millenial generation. But my dad liked the biblical name Hannah and this Japanese variant seemed to suit, so here I am, a blonde haired, blue-eyed Californian with an ancient Japanese name.