A synonym for patience is endurance

Thursday, March 30, 2006

In several of the old romantic novels I used to love, the heroine (I think they now call it the protagonist) was named Patience. I used to think that was a romantic name for a girl. I could envision her mother calling to her, "Come here, Patience, I have something for you." Somewhere along the way, the appeal of that name has left me. Maybe it is because the characteristic that the name implies has also left me.

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