I love my full name, but I don’t often use it.
Henrietta (Hen-ree-et-uh) is kind of unusual. A lot of people say Hen-rita, or they shorten it to Hettie or Hen. Which I’m not into.
Because I don’t feel like any of those names. I feel like an Ettie.
When I started calling myself Ettie - without saying Henrietta at all - I felt so much more like myself.
Today…
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