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sunshinemiss -> RE: I love it when..... (9/19/2009 7:22:12 AM)
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I love that my niece is doing so well at college.
She's majoring in... Gender and Feminist Theory and the Intersection of Some Such Thing. I don't know... So Aunty Sunshine says, "well honey, just what kind of job can you get with that?" Yeah, that's me, ever practical. I was stumped, I swear.
So she says to me, "I'm going to be a doula". I can live with that. And then I look it up in the dictionary, and it brings a chuckle...
dou·la
(dōō'lə) [image]http://cache.lexico.com/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif[/image]
n. A woman who assists another woman during labor and provides support to her, the infant, and the family after childbirth.
[Modern Greek doula, from Greek dialectal doulā, servant-woman, slave.]
Who knew? And by the way, I'm not telling her the origin of that word. No fricking way.
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