DEAR ABBY: My longtime friend — let’s call her “Cindy” — is six months pregnant and has started sharing name ideas with me.

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Cindy will hear a word she thinks sounds pretty and decide it will make a great name for her daughter, regardless of the meaning of the word.

I had to beg her to stop considering Chlamydia as a name. She finally agreed after I repeatedly emphasized the bullying her daughter could receive over that name.

Now she has her heart set on Cliché and seems to think as long as the name isn’t an STD, everything will be fine with that choice. She’s now calling me “hypercritical” as this is the fourth name I’ve objected to. (Bidet and Chalet were the others.)

Cindy’s family doesn’t seem to care and even agrees that Chlamydia sounds lovely and she should go w

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