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Baby Names, Exes, and Paige's College Summer Fling
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The conversation drifts toward future children and baby names, where Hannah and Paige discover a shared grievance: past relationships make it impossible to use certain names. Hannah's version is especially brutal — she only dates men with names she actually likes, so every attractive name she'd ever consider has now been emotionally compromised. Paige went through an ex's phone once and found a girl with her all-time favorite baby name — she never recovered. She also reveals she dated someone named Desmond in college, an Irish-eyed boy who rang the doorbell to pick her up for dinner and gave her a proper summer fling at age 20. Hannah's proposed rule for her own future children: no names that require a nickname, because she refuses to let her kids waste precious seconds of their lives explaining 'it's short for Francine.'
Hannah and Paige commiserate over exes permanently destroying baby names. Hannah's rule: she only dates guys with names she likes, so now every attractive name is off the table. Paige once went through a guy's phone and found a girl with her favorite baby name — she never recovered.
