I just got a Christmas card from a former student. She was like the little sister I left back home when I moved to Hawaii to teach. She and I experienced Europe together in 1996 when I took a group of five students on a week-long tour. She was the funnest of the five.
We have fond memories of dancing around Paris doing the can-can, eating hot crepes au chocolat from a street vendor, watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, and flirting with assorted continental men (for me) and Irish boys (for her) at the top of the Eiffel tower.
Now she's a wife and mom. She has two sons and is expecting a baby in February, and, she tells me in her Christmas card, it's a girl!
"What the heck does this have to do with Twilight?" you ask.
To answer that, I have to tell you this: Do you remember when The Little Mermaid cartoon hit theatres? Within a few years, the girl name "Ariel" became popular among newborn mermaids, where only a few years before it had languished in obscurity.
If you have no children, may I ask if you've named any houseplants Ariel...?
Anyway, back to my student who's pregnant and what it has to do with Twilight.
She's naming her daughter Bella.
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