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A girl named Christopher

Johnny Cash sang about a "A Boy Named Sue.'' But did you know that Orson Welles named his daughter Christopher?
She goes by Chris Welles Feder and she has a memoir coming out in November: "In My Father's Shadow" (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill). When she asked her father why he named her Christopher, he said, "You're the only girl in the world who is, and that makes you unique as well as beautiful."
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