When I recently toured the Jesse James birthplace, the guide in the adjacent museum was explaining something to me and mentioned some aside about Zerelda, and he then made sure to specify that he meant Zerelda James's wife, and not Zerelda James's mother.
Later up at the house, too, Zerelda came up again, so I took that opportunity to ask about how there came to be two Zereldas like that.
"It's a family name," the guide up at the house was like. "He married his first cousin, and she was named after her aunt."
. . .
(For like two days afterwards, this exchange would make me laugh, whenever I thought about it.)
No comments:
Post a Comment