My full name is Sylvie Ramona Bluebell Apple. Mummy remembers the exact moment she named me...she was standing in line at the IGA in Fortitude Valley. It might have been a Friday night. I'm pretty sure it was raining. Mummy remembers something about tabloids being on display by the cash register. (The latter part is completely irrelevant, but I reckon that's a pretty good memory for someone who has had as many seizures as Mummy has. If indeed that memory is correct. Like I said--completely irrelevant). In any event, she was stewing about what to call me. It had to be perfect; to be an exact fit for my little personality.
I'm the only one with two middle names: 'Ramona', because I, ostensibly, "looked like a Ramona", and 'Bluebell', because all the babies have flower middle names. Even the boys got flower or plant middle names--Sammy's middle name was 'Edelweiss.' Luckily no one ever made fun of him because of it. Certainly not me--you know what they say about glass houses and all that...
Speaking of which, I came from a place north of Brisbane, not far from the eponymous mountains. They drove me all the way to the city in the back of a van. I was (understandably, I think) quite jumpy, seeing that I was far too young for such an undertaking, and furthermore, no one had bothered to ask my opinion with respect to said voyage. Little did I know that day, I was on my way to meet the love of my life.
