I used to know this girl named A'lexus. I found out that was how she spelled it when we were doing some activity that involved someone writing our names up on a blackboard (this was from when I was on the slam team). They wrote “Alexis” and she immediately thrust her hand up in the air and said, “Actually, it’s A, apostrophe, L, E, X, U, S. Like the car. A Lexus. My dad named me.”
And for some reason I’ve never been able to shake the mixture of pain and pride with which she announced that. Like she’d spent most of her life being ashamed of her name and then at one point she was like, hey, fuck it. I’m a fucking Lexus and that’s not bad. Thats an expensive ass car. Kiss my ass. I’m A'lexus.
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