What's in a name?

Recently, Mara and I were shopping at Target, and another woman heard me call Mara's name. She came up to me and verified that my daughter's name was Mara. She then told me that she had a daughter named Mara as well - spelled the same way and with the same middle name. She then asked if I had her in Plano and then Plano Presby to be more specific. Come to find out, we have the same doctor and her Mara was born less than six months after our Mara was born. It was a weird coincidence that after two plus years we just so happen to run into each other at a store.

One of the reasons we chose the name Mara was because it wasn't a common name but it wasn't unusual. It was kind of neat, though, to meet someone else who named their daughter the same name because that kind of proved that we picked a good name.