"My grandmother named me [Pancake]. It was something to do with my mom's pregnancy, when I was in her stomach. No one knew she was pregnant – nobody, at all, but my grandmother. My mom's stomach at the time was flat, even when she was pregnant with me. So when they brought her to the hospital, my dad thought she was just having a stomachache or something. But as he was parking the car, she was in labor. I was just a surprise baby. That's why my grandmother called me Pancake."
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