This may be a stretch for an Alternate Name story, But many years ago when my nephew, named CODY, was about three, I was keeping him for the weekend.
He was at the stage where he could talk, just not very easy to understand unless you were around him a lot.
I had an emergency come up, and had to leave him with my neighbor. In all the haste, I neglected to tell my friend the neighbor the child's name 😨 they spend all afternoon trying to interpret him saying his name.....
To this day, when he acts like he has been "mistreated", I just say "Well, JOSEPH, what can I say to make you feel better?"
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