INT. - Living Room. Day.
Yarden Fenway Hurley, 19, enters through the front door carrying a large duffel bag filled with unwashed laundry and wearing a collegiate sweatshirt that says Yale-Microsoft Law across the front.
YFH: Hello? Is anybody home? I'm home for my weekly- oops, I mean daily visit from my full scholarship to Yale-Microsoft University Law School.
Just then her father, Seamus Hurley (54), enters from the kitchen. He is carrying a six pack of microbrew beer with his tail.
SH: Hello little girl!
YFH: Hi dad. Nice tail!
SH: Thanks. I've been meaning to have this done since they opened that gene-splicer store down the street.
YFH: It looks great.
SH: Thanks!
Seamus checks his Curious George watch.
SH: Hey, the game is on and Dice-K is gong to try out his new arms. Let's watch.
YFH: Okay. But I have something to ask you during the seventh inning stretch.
LATER - DURING THE SEVENTH INNING STRETCH
SH: 35 to 0. What a great game!
Seamus' tail hands him a beer.
YFH: It sure is, but I'm surprised they allow minor league teams like the Yankees to play the Red Sox.
SH: Me too. What did you want to ask me, little girl?
YFH: Dad, how did I get my name?
SH: Well, we gave you the last name Hurley because that is my last name, and because when your mother and I got married, we had already considered every reasonable blending or hyphenate name and the best one we could come up with was "Silverley."
YFH: Wow, that's terrible!
SH: Yes it is. It hurts my brain just to think it. Then we made your middle name Fenway after Fenway Park.
YFH: It's such a great name! Why didn't you make it my first name?
SH: We thought about it, but decided that it wold be better as a middle name.
YFH: Now that I think about it, you're right. And Yarden?
SH: Yarden is Hebrew for the Jordan. It was the river your ancestors had to cross to get to their promised land and to be free from slavery. Seeing that river and the land on the other side must have been the most beautiful thing they had ever seen. Almost as beautiful as you.
YFH: Wow Dad, you and Mom picked the best names ever! Now let's watch rest rest of the game!
SH: Perfect.
Just then, Aliyah and Seamus' and Aliyah's other ten children quietly sit and watch the rest of the game with them.
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If she followed a legal or executive career, she could re-fashion it to Y Fenway Hurley.
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