Personal Narrative: My Name

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Most people have interesting and hilarious stories about how they were given their first and/middle names. Regrettably, I am not one of those people. Although I’m sure it would have been impressive to have a riotous tale. My Father did the most of the naming, as I’m told when asked about my name. He claimed that his Aunt did have a somewhat big influence into his choice. His Aunt’s full name is Laura Elizabeth Kennedy and liking the name Elizabeth, he abbreviated it and got Elise. My Father also said that he had recently listened to Beethoven’s music and his favorite song happened to be Für Elise. He explained that he wanted all his kids to have middle names that started with the letter D (because his first name starts with a D). My half-sister Loretta’s middle name is Destiny, my older brother Duran’s middle name is David, and my …show more content…
Online, there is a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) where one of the champions in the game is called Elise. She is a Spider Queen who gives up her innocence to maintain power and eternal youth. She is an enjoyable character, although not one of my favorites. One of my interests happens to be good looking cars. When I was traveling over the summer with my father and brother, we stopped at a lot of car shows in the mid west area. There happens to be a car called a Lotus Elise. It’s a two seater, lightweight sports car, capable of speeding up to 240 km/h (150 mph). The car was named after the granddaughter of Romano Artioli, Elisa. Artioli was the chairman at Lotus and Bugatti at the time of the car’s debut. There’s not much to my name that most people think there is. I think my name is just something that I’m referred to. I don’t see much behind the meaning of my name. Even though I think it’s ironic that my name means “pledged to god” in French, and I don’t really attend church. At the end of the day, I am proud of my name and everyone else should be

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