Unsinkable

I am so happy to report that after speaking with our pediatrician today (we faxed him her medical records yesterday) we have accepted the referral of Rose Bizunesh Collins. 

We decided to change her name a bit because although her given name is beautiful, and if you google it you’ll find out about a cool Ethiopian musician and a principled female journalist/publisher who went to prison for reporting unpopular news, we didn’t want her to be subjected to a million mispronounciations and misspellings and teasing.  If she decides to go by Bizunesh, cool.  But in the meantime she won’t have to have terrible first days of school while teachers butcher her name.    

Plus, Rose is a family name (Charles’ great-grandmother) who was a very special and amazing woman.  She brought Charles’ father to Milwaukee from Mississippi, mostly by foot, when he was a small child, after his mother died in childbirth. 

I felt very priveledged to have known her for a short while from the time I joined the Collins family until she passed a little over a year ago.

So, as Dillon Joseph Collins has elements of his family history and special people in his name, Rose Bizunesh Collins will share that with her brother. 

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