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Introducing Dallas

This is Dallas, who is from New Orleans. You may be wondering why his name is Dallas because he is not from Dallas, which is a large city in Texas. His father’s name was Dallas, but his father wasn’t from Dallas either. Each of our names has a history, and your name history may be interesting to hear.

Vocabulary
Dallas: large city in the state of Texas
New Orleans: large city in the state of Louisiana
Texas: one of the 50 states in the United States

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