Margaret Ann Prendergast: An Analysis

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As I first inhaled, my parents had exhaled the name they decided on: Abbey Rose, after the Beatles’ famous album “Abbey Road”. As I began to create my personality as Abbey, my parents noticed something was off about how I responded to this label. It rolled off the tongue - still, it hung in the air with a hopeless weight to it. Like a message in a bottle, out in the open ocean: it has a destination, yet no perseverance to get there. Almost as quick as the name Abbey was given to me, it was stripped away. I was reborn. Margaret Ann Prendergast, Maggie for short. It was the second choice for my name, coming from Gaelic descent and meaning “pearl” in virtually any foreign language. From that moment, I had the daily challenge of being a “Maggie”.