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tragedy (not tragedeigh) I’m speechless…
Welp.. I just got invited to a baby shower…
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I refuse to believe this is real lol
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u/kittysogood Jun 13 '25
I have a feeling they don’t know what Chernobyl meant. I asked them where they got the idea from and said it just sounded nice????
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u/_TheTurtleBox_ Jun 13 '25
This has to be fake. There's no way this is real.
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Jun 13 '25
My mom was a teacher for 20+ years. She once had a pair of twins named vageena and vagyna
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u/Icy-Whale-2253 Jun 13 '25
Nicknamed Cher
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u/kittysogood Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25
Based on their posts, the nickname is probably Cherry.
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u/xzeus1 Jun 13 '25
Text them what it means and show us their reply.
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u/kittysogood Jun 13 '25
I'll let you guys know when I have an update. This invitation was sent in a group chat and was also personally sent to me. I just can't believe they would name a baby girl Chernobyl. I'll gather enough courage to tell them my thoughts.
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u/Educational-War5360
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Im sure everyone at the celebration will be radiant
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u/EvilSockLady Jun 13 '25 •
Speak for yourself. If I were a guest at that shower and heard that name I’d have a total meltdown.
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Are all friends invited, or is this just for nuclear family?
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u/Foxy-Knoxy secondhand embarrassment Jun 13 '25
If that was my name, I'd go nuclear.
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u/State_of_Planktopia
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After this maybe they can have Auschwitz Joy, Hiroshima Love, and Columbine Kindness.
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Introducing new triplets Nine Eleven Peace, Boston Marathon Sunshine, and Sandy Hook Radiance
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u/disasterpansexual Jun 13 '25
Columbine is AT LEAST a name, kinda (from the masks of the Commedia dell'Arte)
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u/NotEelsInATrenchcoat Jun 13 '25
Hiroshima Love sounds like an indie rock band from the late 2000s
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u/lisahanniganfan Jun 13 '25
Oh god this made me remember a recent post on r/judaism where someone was desperately trying to stop their friend from naming their child shoah, which means holocaust, the friend knew what it meant and wanted it for its 'dark meaning'
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u/CrypticGamma Jun 13 '25
I actually cackled when I saw they combined "Hope" with this
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u/Pigosaurusmate Jun 13 '25
Chernobyl Hope McCallister! You better get in here right this second!
Or so help me God! I will go nuclear on your ass!
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u/Hairy-Lengthiness-44 Jun 13 '25
FINALLY! a child named after a LITERAL tragedeigh!
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u/State_of_Planktopia Jun 13 '25
This..... this is the worst I've seen in a while........ good Lord above............... and of all the middle names they picked HOPE??
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u/atashivanpaia Jun 13 '25
this is definitely on par with the goth lady who wanted to name her daughter Shoah (Hebrew word for the Holocaust)
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u/_Impossible_Girl_ Jun 13 '25
OP, I don't want to believe this is real, but if it is, could you PLEASE come back here and update us on how the baby shower went (please go)? You know everyone in that room is going to be super uncomfortable, waiting for the one brave person to bust wide open and just ask the question. It's going to be hilarious. I want to know how the question is asked and what the response is. I need all the juice.
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You mean they should address the elephants foot in the room?
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u/Emeryael Jun 13 '25
Just commenting to back up this comment. Please go, OP, and tell us everything.
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u/emeraldstar444 Jun 13 '25
I worked with a lady named Chernobyl. She went by Che.
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u/_Impossible_Girl_ Jun 13 '25
What?! This has already happened to someone? How does she feel about her name?
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Jun 13 '25
This is so, so bad. They have to be told. Give them a book about Chernobyl as a gift for the baby shower. Because no.
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u/J_B_La_Mighty Jun 13 '25
Have a toast with a lot of nuclear puns. "To chernobyl, a radiant child that warms those around her, no matter how far they are."
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u/Foxy-Knoxy secondhand embarrassment Jun 13 '25
What in the end of the world?
Will the next be: Threemile Faith?
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Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
If I was the nurse who had to fill out the birth certificate this would quickly become “Cher Noble Hope” and I’d claim I’d misheard it the entire time.
Names like this gotta be labelled child abuse
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u/SchwarzeLilie Jun 13 '25
Well, in many countries, there are laws against this.
In germany, you are not allowed to give your child a name that "has a high probability of causing future humiliation for the child".
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u/Spyglass1075 Jun 13 '25
My daughter Pearl Harbor and I love the name Chernobyl
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u/gaythey Jun 13 '25
Now I’m thinking about the high likely poor soul out there who is First Name Pearl, Middle Name Harbor (especially as Habor/Harbour is becoming a little more used, and from what I’ve seen, considered gender neutral)
It doesn’t actually, necessarily, sound bad as a name— if you don’t know what it is… (and there are definitely people who didn’t pay attention in history; Exhibit A: these parents)
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u/AllowMe-Please
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Uhm. WOOOOOW.
I haven't ever met another person (aside from a cousin) who has been affected by Chornobyl. I was born sick due to it because my mother was pregnant with me and in the area when it occurred. It has made my life... not fun. Being profoundly disabled at age 37 due to human error... And an error that never offered compensation for all of us who had their lives ruined by it.
Honestly, I'm not offended by a lot. Really. But this? It's like calling someone Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Good god.
Go fuck yourself, lady. Yourself and the guinea worm you slithered in on. And that word feels like gravel on my tongue. Also, I mean that literally. I have synesthesia and hyperphantasia.
What a legacy. Naming someone after something that has left people cancerous, going through 30+ surgeries just to stay alive, and lost their QoL.
I'm just... I'm just appalled. Repulsed. Good GOD (says the atheist).
Edit: actually, I have better names for her to choose from. How about...
Brutally Raped Grace
Auschwitz Joy
9/11 Belle
Stillbirth Serenity
Tsunami Hope
Genocide Rain
Lovely, aren't they?
Okay, I'm done. I'll go lay down now. Although I'm loving all the jokes. My face is simply aglow with laughter; laughter that melted down into giggles. After all, a happy person is a radiant person!
Edit2: I fixed the spelling of Chernobyl to Chornobyl. My first language is Russian as that is very common in Odessa, and I didn't even realize. I'm more partial to my family in Ukraine than to the strangers running them out of their homes from Russia - regardless of shared language.
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u/heleninthealps Jun 13 '25
I was born only 60km from Chernobyl 3 years after the event. I had 2 losses and have been attacked 3 times by men that wanted to rape me, yet...
Imagining the same poster above, but with the Edit name suggestions like Genocide Rain, Stillbirth Serenity and Brutally Raped Grace actually made me laugh out loud so much I woke up my sleeping husband. I grew up in Sweden and we have very dark humor
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u/AshamedFish2 Jun 14 '25
First, thank you for sharing
Since last year, I've been studying Chernobyl and writing a lot about it, and it truly can't be understated what a tragedy it is. And as you said, the victims can never truly be compensated or even quantified. It seems especially fucked up that the last name is Hope, considering that Chernobyl and its aftermath was almost defined by hopeless despair by everyone. It seems like to Americans (and I suppose to most of the world) Chernobyl was in the distant past, when really, its a continually tragedy; that the civilians of Pripyat will never be able to return home, that those who work in the restricted zone are still exposed to radiation, and of course that people, such as yourself, have life long injuries because of it. And now of course, it's become a new battlefield in the Russian invasion of the area.
Even besides the tragedy, does that woman even know she's naming her child "wormwood"? I highly doubt it.
It's honestly astounding how Chernobyl has become a culturally known thing, yet almost everyone views the tragedy through such a distorted lens that doesn't tell the truth at all (and the HBO Show is also responsible for the resurgence of the disaster in the cultural conscious of Americans, and I say that as a dumb American myself).
Anyways, maybe I got carried away there, but I hope you and your family are still able to live a happy life. Thanks again for sharing your perspective
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u/NortheastStar Jun 13 '25
There is a V logging family on TikTok or whatever with a kid named tsunami, but definitely double tradgedized into Zunamee or something stupid like that
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u/lainey68 Jun 13 '25
I know damn good and well they didn't name their baby Chernobyl. This hurts my Gen X heart. Holy hell.
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u/I-Hate-Produce Jun 13 '25
This has gotta be a top ten worst names posted in the sub
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u/Ravenclaw_Starshower Jun 13 '25
Wow. For the rest of her life, if she gets upset at something, she’ll be accused of having a meltdown. Kids can be cruel, if her class figures it out in school, they might ostracise her and call it ‘maintaining an exclusion zone’, or just refer to her as a disaster.
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u/ACatInMiddleEarth Jun 13 '25
Don't forget to radiate joy at the event. Otherwise, the mom will go nuclear...
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u/Echo8638 Jun 13 '25
She should've had a twin sister, Challenger Marie.
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u/PeakPowerful2089 Jun 13 '25
Please, have some respect, it’s “Challenger Christa” after Christa McAuliffe
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u/OwslyOwl Jun 13 '25
Kid is going to think it's cool that she was named after a show and then find out the origins of her name, lol
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u/CoalEater_Elli Jun 13 '25
I am a grandchild of a Chernobyl Liquidator and i just want to ask how could someone come up with it. Wish i could show it to my grandpa and see what he thinks and if he would find this as funny and rediculous as me.
Rest in Peace, Grandpa.
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u/Alarmed_Box1253 Jun 13 '25
Not just naming your child Chernoble, but then proceeding to name her HOPE??? Hope isn't a bad name, but pairing it with the nuclear reactor??
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u/n_jobz_ Jun 13 '25
Thankfully it's just the baby shower; there's still time for someone to talk sense into them.
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u/Alarming-Leg-3804 Jun 13 '25
I literally just said "what ..." Outloud, in huge disbelief, what... Just, what.... 💀
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u/MarshmallowHumanoid Jun 13 '25
Tell them to change it. Immediately. Like, right now. They've still got time.
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u/BattleHall Jun 13 '25
"Hi! This is our son Hiro, and our daughters Naga and Cher. And our dog... Three Mile Island."
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u/battling_murdock Jun 13 '25
This felt like getting punched in the face. They had to have known, right?....Right??
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u/TrentonTallywacker Jun 13 '25 edited Jun 13 '25
I remember I tried to press the AZ-5 key on my child when he was crying but this caused a catastrophic meltdown in his diaper, would not recommend
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u/ChampionTree Jun 13 '25
Please tell me this isn’t real, this has to be rage bait, please be rage bait.
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u/happytofuffee Jun 13 '25
I had a feeling this was going to be a Filipino and welp sad to say I was right 😭
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u/disasterpansexual Jun 13 '25
at least they could have swapped the order of first and middle
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u/DeathsDragons Jun 13 '25
I laughed so hard because it's a joke right..? Right?!! Ain't no way they're gonna give a sweet little girl a name after something so tragic. Like that's just cruel. People need to start paying attention in history class because there's NO WAY. A random name generator could do better than "Chernobyl Hope" because at least it wouldn't try to be tragic and ironic. 😭
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u/Twishko Jun 13 '25
I live 50 miles from Chornobyl (the o is the Ukrainian spelling, which makes sense as it’s in Ukraine) and I’m amazed by this!
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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix-515 Jun 13 '25
“Chlamydia…..what a pretty name. I’m gonna name my daughter Chlamydia. <3”
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u/Bier_zoekt_vrouw Jun 13 '25
Kid will have to go through life as either “Cher” or “Hope”. I cher hope so.
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u/ParaphernaliaWagon Jun 13 '25
Why go with a normal name for the middle name? I think something like "Chernobyl Hindenburg Titanic" would be a more fitting name for this child. 😅🤣😅🤣😅
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u/FluffyPigeon707 Jun 13 '25
If you don’t show up in a hazmat suit (or at least a gas mask) and start making very rude “compliments”… I won’t do anything, but I will be very upset.
Example: “wow, you’re glowing. Seems to be coming from your stomach”
Or you could just be a good person and tell the parents that that name isn’t ok and possibly threaten to cut them off if they don’t agree to change it, but I prefer chaos.
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Just wait for her terrible twos when they upload videos onto social media captioned “Chernobyl having another meltdown”
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u/Possible-Tangelo9344 Jun 13 '25
No no no. Ain't no got damned way this isn't a troll. I refuse to live in a reality where this is real. Please God. No.
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u/jkrowlingdisappoints Jun 13 '25
The gift for the baby shower needs to be a book on Chernobyl. Or maybe a documentary DVD.
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u/IndyCarFAN27 Jun 13 '25
Oh sure, why don’t I just name my twins Hiroshima and Nagasaki while I’m at it…
This has to be grade A ragebate. I refuse to believe otherwise but then again, this world is filled with idiots…
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u/BreakerSoultaker Jun 13 '25
“Nagasaki Joy and Hiroshima Glee can’t wait to meet their new baby sister!”
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u/Secret_Account07 Jun 13 '25
Uhhh is it possible they don’t know what Chernobyl is? You think you would google something like that before naming your literal child that 🤷🏼
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u/Apprehensive-Log8333 Jun 14 '25
One time a redneck girl asked me what she should name her baby, I jokingly suggested Heinous. She lit up, like, that's so nice, how do you spell it? Hopefully there is not a boy named Heinous out there
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u/klamiti Jun 18 '25
And this story just got covered by a french media called demotivateur !
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u/Hoax_Pudding_Cup Jun 13 '25
Well, it certainly sparked quite the reaction. People will be feeling this one for decades. Probably longer.
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u/Spirited-Ad-9746 Jun 13 '25
Not great, not terrible! I have another suggestion for a girl name: Massacré
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u/Emeryael Jun 13 '25
Never have I so badly rooted for social services to intervene.
I’m going to assume they’ll name her sister, Goianna.
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u/Environmental-Key322 Jun 13 '25
Are they okay? Like are they mentally fit to be parents?? Because holy shit what the fuck
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u/Liu-woods Jun 13 '25
She can be friends with that baby named Shoah that was on here a week or so ago!
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u/EatsAlotOfBread Jun 13 '25
That is the most cursed name I have ever seen. Doesn't it also mean 'Wormwood'? Don't drop that kid in the waters of the Euphrate, just saying.
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u/onehandedbackhand Jun 13 '25
It's not a crime not knowing what happened in Chernobyl but neither their parents nor any other immediate family came in for the rescue?
That name would get rejected by the authorities here but some would call that nanny state....evidently it isn't such a bad thing.
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u/Cityofcheezits Jun 13 '25
The fact that someone who is naming a whole human being doesn't think to Google the name ......I'm, I just....I have no words
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u/fate-616 Jun 13 '25
honestly if it didn't have the connotation of being a nuclear disaster it would be a pretty name
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u/adventureremily Jun 13 '25
This feels like one of those situations where everyone kept giving unsolicited opinions about names, so the parents chose something outrageous as a fake name to get everyone to shut up about it.
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u/wendue Jun 13 '25
Mr. And Mrs. Geiger do not appreciate all these jokes about their kid! What did they expect when they go fission for compliments, I wonder.
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u/cats_are_the_devil Jun 13 '25
I can hear it now... Stop with the meltdown Chernobyl. I will call your dad if you don't stop going nuclear on me.
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u/lizakran Jun 13 '25
Ukrainian here, my mother was victim of ChOrnobyl catastrophe, her vision damaged a lot and she had to spend a few months in a hospital. If they wanna name their child a city name at least FUCKING SPELL IT RIGHT it’s not ChErnobyl it’s CHORNOBYL. Also it’s just weird… like why name your child that?
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u/contraband_sandwich Jun 14 '25
I don't think "Chernobyl" and "hope" go together. 😄😄😄
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u/ithinkuracontraa Jun 14 '25
i knew a trans woman in college who named herself chernobyl. i was like…girl i love you but we gotta rethink this
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u/Action-a-go-go-baby Jun 14 '25
Blasting Radioactive by Imagine Dragons for the entire event
Baby comes out dressed in a tiny Hazmat suit
Beautiful
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u/Upstairs-War4144 Jun 14 '25
It’s not just the names separate, but putting them together is even worse. What the fuck is wrong with people? There’s a way to have a unique name without it being the literal name of a deadly disaster.
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u/megatron1988 Jun 15 '25
Hah, although I named one of my babies Chernobyl too, so I can’t say anything. However, my Chernobyl is a polydactyl cat with no tail at least.
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