You can not be given the name Moira, grow up never meeting another one, and not think of Ireland. Whenever I meet people from Ireland or Scotland I am cheerfully told that this is a common name over there. Over there. Not here. I have one of the most Celtic names a person could have: Moira Kirstin Boyd and to my knowledge I am not of Celtic descent. I am going to begin with the etymology of 'Moira'. I want to do this to illustrate how pervasive its meaning is in our culture. I also do it for those that are reading this that approach me with a half-assed history lesson on the meaning of my name thinking I didn't know, after 53 years, what the meaning of my very own name means. 'Moira' means 'fate'. The collective term for Moira is Moirae and The Moirae (sometimes written Moirai), were three sisters in Greek mythology that determined the fate of a life spent on earth. These sisters were Klotho, (the spinner), Lakhesis (portioner of lots), and Atropos (she
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