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Robin Pulver |

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Robin Pulver: Hello. My name is Robin Pulver. People of my generation might recognize the name, similar to Ensign Pulver. I was born on the day World War II ended, August 14th, 1945, VJ Day. My parents heard sirens of celebration and victory and politely considered, but quickly dismissed the nurses suggestion, that if the baby was a girl, they could name her Victoria. Then, my father wrote the name, Alice Elizabeth on the Birth certificate, before my mother came out of anesthesia. I started out life as Alice Elizabeth Robinson.

Alice was confusing, because that was my mother's name too. Now there were two Alice's in the family. For the first two years of my life, my parents called me by my middle name, Elizabeth. To my parents dismay, people shortened that to names like, Beth or Lizzie, or Liz. My father came home from work one day and said, "The name Elizabeth just isn't working. Why don't we call her Robin." Robin, it was from then on. I was Robin Robinson for all my growing up years.

I didn't realize what an odd name Robin Robinson was, until I was in college and I was ordering flowers to send home. When I told the florist my name, Robin Robinson, she looked startled, then dismayed and then said, "My. Isn't that Euphonic." Suddenly, at that moment, my name embarrassed me. When I got married at age 26, I took my husband's last name, Pulver. That's how I became Robin Pulver.

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