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Jellyfish – A thousand little stings.

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His mother had never liked the shortening Alex for Alexander. She would always tell him, after all, that he had been named after Alexander the Great, and when he’d been conquering half the world on behalf of Rome, no one had dared to call him by anything less than his full title. 

Fortunately for her, Alex never stuck. More out of Alexander’s lack of grade-school popularity than any delusions of grandeur on his part, but so. 

The power in a name and all that. 

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