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something else. There was a real pretty girl I liked when I was in junior high, and her name was Katy. But she wouldn’t even give me the time of day.” He then turned back to me. “Do you think that might be why I don’t like the name?” I shrugged. “Seriously, I’m not much of a psychologist.” He didn’t care. He was already heading out the door. As he left, he said, “I think you just might have saved our marriage.” A few days later, Kevin joined me in my office again. He flopped in the chair. “Women are so strange.” “How so?” I asked. “After I left here, I thought more and more about it, and I decided that Katy would be an okay name. But when I told my wife, she got suspicious and wanted to know why I had changed my mind. When I told her I knew a real pretty girl named that, she immediately changed the baby’s name before I could even explain that the girl didn’t like me. She then told me she decided we would name the baby Suzanne.” “What did you say to that?” I asked. 15