re: Meet the San Francisco woman who charges $30,000 to name your baby

True story: my ancestors were poor. When my grandmother was pregnant with my Mom, an old spinster widow in town who had no children and few friends paid my grandmother $10 to name my Mom after her so she would have some type of legacy. That's how my Mom got her name - it was paid for. The old widow also promised to pay for my Mom's college and bequeath her house to her after she died. But when my Mom was still young the old widow sold her house and willed her estate to someone else in return for them caring for her in her final years. So my Mom went through her entire life with a first and middle name that were thrust upon her in exchange for $10.