Since we are solace for one another, how's about we tell the story of our names?

[happybird]

139. It's a name I used on a game forum for years

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My ex and I both had full mouth extractions around the same time. His surgery was a couple weeks before mine. In those intervening weeks, we ended up with a tiny rescue kitten (Pooper) and one of the strays that lived around the apartment complex was seriously injured, so we were nursing him back to health, including syringe feeding him.

All the soft and mashed food, for the cats and us humans, plus the cushy blanket nest the no-longer-stray (Sammy the Dude) and I basically lived in while convalescing, led to an inside joke about eating like baby birds. He started calling me Baby Birdie.

When I joined that other forum, it was the first name I thought of because that's the only nickname I've ever had. Didn't want to use the Baby part, so switched that to Happy. I was deeply unhappy at the time so figured trying the whole "fake it till you make it" thing might help.