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Jan 2015
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#96 - TO NAME AFTER

Luke Thompson
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To give someone the same name as someone else. "I was named after my great great Grandfather, who was also called Luke" "I wasn't named after Luke Skywalker, even though I was born when Star Wars was in the cinemas" 
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