They were thinking that since I was going to be a boy, so they thought that I would just be a junior to my father. But since I was a girl, my father had the idea of, well, why don't we have her be a junior to you? To my mother. That was his response to my mother. And so they decided, well, since my mother's name was already a short version of a name, they decided to give me the long version of that name
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:19
Deborah. This is Deborah. I love your name for lots of reasons, but I have to tell you, my parents thought I was going to be a boy also, and I was going to be Jonathan. So it's funny that both of our parents thought we were not going to have to need girls names, so it perked my ears up when I heard your story. Welcome to swell