On The Day I Was Born, Or Possibly On One Of The Following Days, My Father Went On A Walk In The Forested Hills And Thought Of A Name For Me. His First Son Was Called Daniel, And Samuel In Memory Of One Of His Forefathers.

On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers.

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My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

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