Responding to my piece about names today, a reader writes,

I was born Richard Jr. and until the cusp of puberty was known as “Dicky,” “Dick Jr.,” and of course “Little Dick.” Yes, my father was known to all as “Big Dick.” For reasons you can imagine, I changed my name to “Rich.”
Later in life, I worked with two other men named Rich. It came to light that each of us was a Richard Jr., each had endured the same early nicknames, and each had changed to “Rich” in the fourth or fifth grade.

Wonderful. By the way, Rich Little, pictured above? It may be especially important to be “Rich” — or perhaps “Rick,” or even the full-out “Richard” — when you have that last name.