From: Risa Lashley/Lamberth, 28, Nurse, Alabama, rl628@charter.net

Date: 6/10/03
Alexander City,

I was named after my mother, Rita. The joke was she could just change the 'T' to an 'S.' My father's name is Roger so it's Roger-Rita-Risa. We also had a dog named Reba.

I remember that I could never find a pen or pencil for sale with my name on it. But once I got a wood key chain for free because when I told the vendor he wouldn't have my name, he said, "I have every name you could think of that's a name, not a nickname."

I won, of course, but he said that would never happen again.