From dan's point of view
In my usual style, I'll say that's not exactly the way it happened.
We did consider his given birth name and how he would handle a name which sounded foreign to most children and adults when he came to live with us. We compromised with a dual first name of Lincoln Tadiwos.
My thinking has always been that he can self identify as his heart decides over time. Maybe as a pre-teen he's Lincoln and by high school or college he prefers Tadiwos.
I would have been ok au natural, but I'm also ok with the fact that we supplemented his given birth names with a given name of our own. At his young age he will identify with that which we call him the most; I think he'll stick with that for awhile. But as he grows he may find that his path in life will include Tadiwos. One can only imagine.
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