some place else/in a name

I have a friend here who is from Mozambique. A few days ago he told me that his cousin gave birth to a baby girl. The family asked him to propose names for the child. He proposed 7-8 names and one of them was “Aktina”.  Their tradition is that the family has to do a sort of a conference, consult with him as well, and on the 8th day after the child is born decide on the name. And indeed they named the child Aktina-Eloize and, as is the custom, they will be calling her by the first name, Aktina. So here we are, two Aktinas, one in Greece one in Mozambique….(And to think we’ll probably never even meet each other… And not that I know what the greek Aktina’s life will be like, but I can’t but wonder, what will the Mozambican Aktina’s life will be like?)

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