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>That’s why they chose to name me Linda. Linda means beautiful, the “a” signifying female — facts I learned at my Bat Mitzvah, a Jewish ritual that marks the day a girl becomes a woman, at age thirteen. I’ll never forget my father’s speech. He was so proud, he told us, as my mother beamed at his side, of how I was living up to the name they had chosen for me.