I was named after Jeanette and Isabelle, two milk maids who told the village that the Christ Child was born, in a French legend. My mom, Rebecca, and her sister, Elizabeth, were given Biblical names. Jeanette is the French feminine form of John, a Biblical name. Isabelle is the French form of Elizabeth, my aunt's first name. Aunt Elizabeth had a set of twins, Timothy and James, Biblical names which, when shortened, are Tim and Jim. My maternal grandmother, a preacher's daughter, is Mary.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday