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...full name, in its unabridged form, is Henrietta Zane Bratton Wruble. It’s long. It sounds pretentious, at times. It stretches across the entire length of my HUID. To speak it out loud is clumsy enough that I have taken to whipping out said ID so that inquisitors can see the absurdity for themselves. Ever since coming to Harvard, its entirety has been plastered on every class list and official e-mail, so I’ve long since given up on maintaining it as my Deepest Darkest Secret...
...government, DMV, and Harvard, this is how my name will always be. To Amex, Bank of America, and now The Crimson, I am H. Zane B. Wruble. To my distant relatives in Ireland, I imagine I am still Henrietta. To my friends I will always be Zane. I have even tried on a couple of other names for size before. At French camp when I was 16, I was “Zazie.” Zazie was the outgoing goofball I never had the courage to be in high school. In China, I was Wu Hanrui: traveler, socialite...
...don’t you like Henrietta...
...just don’t take history for granted... you move forward as it inspires you,” explains Henrietta A. O. Afari ’11, visual arts coordinator of the BAF board...
...looks quite messy and even threatening,” Vice Mayor Henrietta Davis said. “We need to take more aggressive steps. We need to advocate for the citizens...