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Liberty Two Redshoes

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Date Posted: 02:03:51 12/21/05 Wed
In reply to: no name 's message, "Re: Hey All!" on 11:12:32 12/13/02 Fri

Or -
If you want to know the story behind my unusual name. . .

When people ask me if my name is really "Lulu Redshoes", I have to tell them that actually, its not:
It's really "Liberty Two Redshoes". Sometimes they ask me what was wrong with my mother (to name
me that) - I tell them she used to drink a lot of "cold medicine". Mom didn't think that was too funny.
(And it wasn't true anyway, but I'm a writer and I learned to tell a good story from my mother.)

Liberty Two Redshoes IS my real and legal name. A writing group I led in Mobile, Alabama, helped
(gave me the courage) to change it legally about five years ago. The name comes from a distant ancestor
who was a Native American.

Evidently she was a free spirit who loved to walk in the red clay on the Gulf Coast. Her name translates
loosely to Free Spirit (Liberty) with red stained feet (Redshoes). She displeased the men of her tribe. For
that very reason, when she died at a young age she was buried in an unmarked grave and her name was
forbidden to be spoken again.

Her tribe believed she was now condemned to wander alone and lost in the spirit world for all eternity,
unnamed, not knowing who she was.

She would always be an unclaimed spirit, a bewildered, melancholy and lost soul.

The only way to release the young "free spirit" with feet stained red was for another woman
to take her name in this life, thereby acknowledging her existence . . . and allowing her once
again and for eternity to be a "free spirit". How could a writer resist that story? I couldn't...

That's why my name is no longer Linda Rouse Broggi.

It really is . . . Liberty Two Redshoes

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