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Word Up: Lorna Munro
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They say some babies grow into their names.
Meanwhile others fully inhabit the name their parents choose, as if it was ordained to be so before they were born.
That’s what Lorna Munro found when she named her son a particularly beautiful word in Gomeroi, her father’s language.