My father in laws name is Lavern. I never knew another man with that name, but like AS said, apparently it was an appropriate name for a man way back when. I could imagine the trouble a boy would have with that name today.
AS, maybe like Sue in the famous song by Johnny Cash, "it's that name that helped to make you strong"!
M: A really long time. Crisis: 5 years. She's still worth it.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl