What do you do when you're in a room full of Arabic speakers and they're throwing out baby girl name suggestions for one of the pregnant woman in the room? Particularly when she's leaning towards an Arabic name and most of the ones you are familiar with have already have been raised: Noor, Malak, Malakah, Jasmin, Jasmina, Aisha, Layla, Leena, Sabina, Rana, etc.
Apparently smiling, nodding and saying which ones are particularly nice isn't good enough. H and I did just that and the father-to-be accused us of holding out on him by 'hoarding our baby name list for ourselves.' It didn't cross his mind that maybe we just don't have a baby name list. We're not saving the name Seven a la George Costanza. Salaam.
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