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How did you get all that into one name? Beverly kept that to herself, sensing that she'd already been too up front with the first year. This road onto being amiable wasn't easy. She was too curious and blunt at times that it came off as her being mean or rude. Which half the time wasn't even true.
"Quite a meaning to it. So," with a more pleasant tone, "Marisol means María de la Soledad?" She's never heard that, and she's got several languages under her belt. "I would have thought - if you split it up - it'd be something like, sea and sun...'cause Mar-i-sol." Something like that. Apparently meanings ran deeper. She needed to tell Kennedy and ask since he was an expert in Spanish!
Huh.
Mar y sol, sea and sun. That was what a lot of people thought. It was the most likely choice. But no, her name was Catholic, referring to the Virgin Mary. Her family weren't even that religious, but it had been Mari's great-grandmother's name.
"You talk a bit of Spanish?" Marisol asked. It would be a good thing to have someone to talk to, even if they didn't speak much. At the same time, it would be easier for the first year to learn English. And
so-oon!