Judy Sheehan: Hello, my name is Judy Sheehan. My proper first name is Judith, but please only call me that if you're angry at me. My parents have no idea why they gave me that first name, but we'll get to that in a moment.

Sheehan is a very common name in Ireland where they tend to pronounce it shee-HEN. My parents did everything in their power to ensure that there would be lots of Sheehans in America. They had 12 children. I'm the 10th.

For the record, there were eight boys, four girls, one set of twins, one set of parents, and one bathroom. Oh. TMI? Anyway, by the time they got to me, they might have been picking first names out of a hat.