Thank you for sharing this. I knew some of this but not most of it, I don't think. (Two Pennsics in a row not running into each other will do that, I guess...)
Your chosen name is lovely, and will probably be misspelled and mispronounced so you'll have to figure out how you feel about that. I wouldn't let the fact that others around you have a name deter you; if the *only* reason you don't want to be a Gwen (or whatever) is that you know one, well, naming collisions happen all the time. I remember one class in grade school with *four* Lindas out of, I think, 25 people. I worked on an 8-person team with two Toms. It happens. People deal with it.
I've always thought of you as Dglenn, but I suppose that's not among the options. :-)
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Your chosen name is lovely, and will probably be misspelled and mispronounced so you'll have to figure out how you feel about that. I wouldn't let the fact that others around you have a name deter you; if the *only* reason you don't want to be a Gwen (or whatever) is that you know one, well, naming collisions happen all the time. I remember one class in grade school with *four* Lindas out of, I think, 25 people. I worked on an 8-person team with two Toms. It happens. People deal with it.
I've always thought of you as Dglenn, but I suppose that's not among the options. :-)