There have been a few versions. A guy
that one of my mother's friends used to date. A football player. I
was gonna be named Damien but thank god that didn't happen. Damien's
are worse than Dante's! The reason I was not shackled with the name
Damien was because my mother's friend told her that it was the name
of the devil child in Omen. Funny that she went with Delvin which is
a single letter away from Devil and Dante which, after Damien, is the
second name most associated with hell. Go figure.
I found out that I was a different
human being after coming to school late for the first time when I was
9 years old. This may have been one of my last days at my elementary
school and I went to the office to get a tardy slip. I had never had
to get one of these before (yes, I was that kid) and after a few
minutes of them calling for this Delvin kid that I'd never heard of
they alerted me to the fact that Dante was not my first name.
My world was rocked.
