@shewolfnm,
Mel, oh **** THAT would piss me off.
I knew one woman called Mel growing up. It was short for Melvina, accent on the vine part.
ehbeth....yeah also re the age.
I remember getting to the age where you'd be watching a movie and you'd see characters named Sharon, Laura, Pat, Kathleen, like my girlfriends, but never a Joyce.
Then, I noticed Joyce's were relegated to being the best friend of the main character in a movie from the 1940's. A friend who is in like 2 little scenes, saying stuff like "I'd watch myself around that man, if I were you. He's after something" or "You're going to Paris? How exciting!"
Either way, you never saw her again.
Maybe all the white Joyce's got too old and died, and I'm the last one.
Wally used to think I was crazy when I said that, but, over the years, he's introduced me to probably a dozen Joyces, and each time I'd say "see?" Right now I can name 3 peope I know, 2 nurses and a tech, all "AA" with that name.
God, I sound like a pre-occupied teenager about my name. All these people calling me Joy lately has hit me hard....real hard....I'm gonna make it though, don't worry....I'll make it through this......I hope.
At least I have Joyce DeWitt.
Good God, what did she do to her beautiful nose?!