I'm not following the Caravaggio->Carmine connection. Caravaggio was your mother's or father's surname? I would assume your mother, as it's Italian (quite uncommon name as well), but you say it was your father who altered it?
My father named me. My mother had no say in it. She wanted to name me Samuel Anne Caravaggio. Carmine had nothing to do with it, it was my fathers last name since before that time. But I was planned to be Carvaggio. My parents weren't married so the laws back then said my family could choose. My mother intended on keeping me home anyways. Praise God his family stayed close and convinced him to step in a little, it lasted until I was 7, him showing up at open house for school and birthdays. "At work" meant with his other children until they'd grown up, and working. My father had Carmine written on his American Social Security card. He was already decades into using the name so he decided it would be mine after there was an outrage about "Samuel Anne." I have no clue why Anne. But it was 2008, everyone especially my father was business minded and they still had hope America had a future. Not like nowadays where I notice families keep all their traditions in tact. Even adopting others like "Beyoncé" and whatnot.
I don't hold myself like one but I was the black sheep in my family, only child with my two parents together, it wasn't always that way though, people stepped in and did their part for me, but some of them quit when I got older, so I don't like not only America but also a lot of my individual family, but I don't mind most of them. I realize a lot of my life was being closer to my family, which for me was my ethnic roots, rather than my parents and I felt natural gravitation toward them.
Regardless, even now exposing my bias I thunk French is much more elegant.
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