Журналистка узнала, что её уникальное имя носит женщина, которая назвала дочь в честь неё 30 лет назад

Author and food writer Cadry Nelson was supposed to be named after her Aunt Susie. But just months before her birth, another relative used the name for her newborn daughter. “My mom had to scramble and find a new name,” Nelson, 51, tells TODAY.com. At the time, Nelson’s mom was babysitting her 5-year-old niece Darcy before and after school. “She was just learning how to spell her name, and she would scramble the letters from D-A-R-C-Y to C-A-D-R-Y at the top of her kindergarten papers, and bring them home,” Nelson explains. “And my mom would get her papers and would kind of teasingly call her ‘Cadry.’” In time, she really grew to love the name, eventually giving it to her daughter: Cadry Susanne Nelson. Nelson says her cousin Darcy is like her “bonus sister,” and they were even the maid and matron at each other’s weddings. “We’ve always been really tight, and it’s really fun that we have this name connection,” she adds. Other than not being able to find personalized name stickers as a kid, Nelson has always enjoyed having a unique name. “You know you’re the Cadry,” she jokes. “You don’t have to say, ‘Oh, I’m Jeannette M,’ or ‘I’m Jenny R.’ You’re Cadry. That’s it.” Nelson has never met another Cadry in real life. “I assumed — until the internet — that I was the only Cadry,” she says. “I found out later that they exist. There are only a few, and sometimes it’s a man’s name!” Her name did, however, inspire other moms. When Nelson performed in her college production of “Bye Bye Birdie,” her name was listed in the program. At a meet-and-greet after the show, a pregnant woman approached Nelson to tell her how much she liked her first name. “Two months ago, I got a message on Instagram that said, ‘Hey, you don’t know me, but I went to a play at a dinner theater in Des Moines in the ‘90s. I came across your name, and it’s very unique. Is there any chance that you’re this person that I named my daughter after in 1995?’” Nelson shares. She replied, “’Yes, that’s me!’”