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The story with Third was bittersweet. Romans often used birth order as names for example the Latin numeral octavus meaning "eight" or "eighth" was used as the given names Octavius or Octavia like in the case of the frist roman emperor Gaius Octavius better known as Octavianus Augustus Caesar.

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I think that's a thing in Japanese too? With, like, "Tarou" and "Jirou" and stuff? But in this story, it wasn't actually her legal name, just a very common nickname in families with a lot of children.

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