Posted by misunderstoodslave on Wed 14 Dec 11, 12:21 AM to misunderstoodslave's blog.
This is my Christmas angel story:
My sister told me there is a child in her son's class at primary school called MetaAngel.
Bloody hell, I thought, when I heard this. My sister is quite posh, so I immediately assumed that MetaAngel was the child of some bearded academic, perhaps a Professor of mediaeval philosophy or theology. What, after all, could a MetaAngel be? Angels are already pretty meta, by definition, I'd have thought.
Turns out I was quite wrong. My sister swears this is true - the mother was on her way to an abortion clinic while pregnant, and "met a angel," who dissuaded her from a termination, and in gratitude chose to call her child after her helper.
Because I am a terrible person, I am torn between laughing at the simplicity of this mother, and looking down on her ridiculous choice of name, and finding it all rather touching.
I gloss over my own deeply pretentious assumptions on the origin of the name. (Of course I do!)
| 14 Dec 11, 10:54 AM Mistress_Amethyst UK, 5 yrs    |
grins!! well you have to dont you????? xXAXx ~~If you don't like me it's your fault~~ |
| 14 Dec 11, 1:06 PM Betony UK, 7 yrs |
It just wouldn't be authentic mistletoeslave if you didn't give us all the angles. I want you like a soldier wants the smell of home, like Robson wants Jerome |
