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Why did parents in the early 1900s give children initials rather than complete names in the south? My great uncle had to legally give himself a first and last name as an adult because before they time his first name was L and his second one was R.
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Why did parents in the early 1900s give children initials rather than complete names in the south? My great uncle had to legally give himself a first and last name as an adult because before they time his first name was L and his second one was R.
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