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Donna Barba Higuera |

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Donna Barba Higuera: Hello. My name is Donna Barba Higuera. And my first name Donna means lady in Spanish, but that is not why I got the name. My mother named me after what she said was the most beautiful doll she had as a little girl and she had named her doll Donna. Well, fast forward, many, many decades and my aunt had passed away and lo and behold, what turns up, Donna the doll. I came home and my mother said, "Oh, you have to see her. We found her." I walked in and saw Donna and she was the creepiest doll out of the scariest movie you've probably ever seen. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she was not beautiful. Alas, that's where I got my name Donna.

Barba means beard in Spanish.
And I always thought that was so strange. I wondered if it came from part of Spain and if somebody was a barber or if they had a big scruffy beard. And Higuera means fig tree. My great-great-great-grandfather founded San Luis Obispo in California and many people know Higuera Street. It's actually pronounced Higuera and it means fig tree. And again, I wonder if he had immigrated from Mexico, but I also wonder if his ancestors had come from Spain and if they were from a region that had fig trees, or if they had a fig tree of their own.

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