“Now we can’t keep calling you James, she said, so let’s pick a nice girls name for you.

How about Jamie or Jemima ?”

I didn’t like either.

Too much like James, who I wanted to leave well behind me.

“How about Alison?” I said.

“Fine,” said mum, ”If you are happy with that let’s go for it, Alison”.

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