Siran, Cynthia, or Sylvia?

She was a young Armenian girl growing up in Clinton, Massachusetts. She and her family spoke exclusively Armenian at home. Her name was Siranush...a typical Armenian name. She was called Siran for short. When it came time for Siranush to be enrolled in the first grade, luck would have it that her cousin from Lowell (who was about 15 years old at the time) happened to be visiting. Siran's parents, whose English was not very good, asked Elizabeth to take Siran and register Siran for the first grade. . . which Elizabeth did. While Elizabeth was in line, she thought about her sisters' enrollment in school with Armenian names like Siruhi and Sirvart, and how difficult it had been for her sisters to integrate because of those names. Elizabeth determined that she was not going to have Siran suffer the same fate. So Elizabeth decided that when the time came to register Siran, she was going to do something about it! She thought she would register Siran as Cynthia or Sylvia or something like that! She decided on Sylvia and that name has been Siran's name all these many years! Sylvia's birth certificate still says Siranush. When Siran needs to show that certificate, the town clerk will put in parentheses the following: (also known as Sylvia). The above a true story written by Sylvia (originally known as Siranoush)! N.B. Silvia originates from the Latin word for forest. Siranoush originates from two Armenian words meaning sweet love!