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Original Title: TIL Anne Rice’s birth name was Howard Allen. She became ‘Anne’ on her first day of school, when a nun asked her what her name was. She told the nun ‘Anne’ because she considered it a pretty name. Her mother, who was with her, let it go without correcting her and then legally changed her name in 1947