I wrote this recently in a writing group:<\/p>\n
I was named Jean for my mother, but they called me \u201cJenny\u201d to differentiate me from my mother who was called \u201cPidge.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>I was told that \u201cJenny\u201d had come from a great-great grandmother named Jenny Murdoch.\u00a0 <\/span>She was a Scot, and my middle name \u201cDavidson\u201d is a clan whose territory was around Inverness.\u00a0 <\/span>The story is told of Jenny Murdoch, when she came over on the boat from Scotland, there was a terrible storm.\u00a0 <\/span>She was down in steerage, and she came up on deck saying \u201cIf I mus\u2019 dee, let me not dee in darkness.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>I have a picture of a young woman in clothing from the 19th Century, sitting proudly.\u00a0 <\/span>I don\u2019t remember being told who she was, but I have identified her with Jenny Murdoch, and I take her cry as my motto.\u00a0 <\/span>I have lived most of my life in severe depression.\u00a0 <\/span>I didn\u2019t know, until I got on medication, that I had never had normal brain chemistry.\u00a0 <\/span>One of the things that kept me going through nearly 60 years was the determination that I would not die depressed.<\/p>\n I wrote this recently in a writing group: I was named Jean for my mother, but they called me \u201cJenny\u201d to differentiate me from my mother who was called \u201cPidge.\u201d\u00a0 I was told that \u201cJenny\u201d had come from a great-great … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/granjenny.jpg\")
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