Angelica Maria Aguilera - For the Girls with Long Names

Angelica Maria Aguilera, performing at Button Poetry Live, June 2019.

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[mariopereira]

finally a poem of a diferent topic and with a diferent reading flow. refreshing for being diferent, authentic and inspirating. Thank you.

[processesofbecoming]

There is a special place in my rage for people who don’t bother to pronounce someone’s name properly, or like to shorten it to “an easier to say nickname”.

[ladyinluv]

Marie-Madeleine Gnagniko. And that’s without my middle names. And I am PROUD.

[jswonderland]

Dont allow anyone strip you of your beautiful names

[miasoper]

I love every poem that reshapes and romanticizes how you talk about a group of people

[moonie]

I have 2 names and 2 last names, and all of them can be last names, so no one knows in what order they go

[lynn]

this inspired me to write a poem about my own name. thank you for blessing my ears. <3

[kamir]

It's been FOREVER since I heard a poem this good, to send tingles down my body, and tempt me to cry <3

[angelesquiroga]

I got so teary watching this my name is milagro de Los Angeles and I have always been told how long and wordy it was i feel so happy to be in a long name comunity

[mary__simone]

Maria-Simona Elisabetha Collazo

Shout-out to my girls with multiple first names, and multiple names in general ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼🙌🏼🌠

(My username is my full name in English.)

[anneliesemillard]

Anneliesea Androvonoch Nikkoletta Millard ... yeah I'm Russian

[TheJuliana]

my name always takes up two lines, always messes up formatting. my favorite game is to see if someone can remember it whole.

[rethabilethabi]

Rethabile lerato yes i am proudly SOUTH AFRICAN🇿🇦

[angelicatibbitts]

Yasss gimmi some longgg namess!! Mines is Angelica Rose Nichole Tibbitts ❤❤❤❤❤

[luayu]

I feel this, I have one name and four surnames ❤️

[yaretziexists]

Jarepsy Amayrany Cabello Melgar. Cuban-Guatemalan-American and proud. 🇨🇺🇬🇹🇺🇸✊

[adventurevidswithbellaphoenix]

Teresia Mwatsilameni Gaali Nelumbu. That's my 3 names and then the last is my lastname.

[isabellaweakliem]

My last name is very hard to pronounce it’s very unique in fact it’s so unique my family is the only Ones who carry this last name before my last name would drive me crazy about how nobody would ever get it right but I’ve learned to love it and take it as something unique

[allisondennison]

one time I was putting in my bank info and it wouldn't take my info because "names must be under 22 characters".

[impactmen]

Wow! This is Stunning..
The beginning is some thing else.