'Let him be named for tomorrow rather than the past,' she said.  'Let him have a name that will embody our hopes for the future and have meaning for all who hear it.' \n\n This appealed to the romantic and the scholar in my father and to the dynastic impulses of my grandfather.  Thus it was that my father chose these names:\n\n Diogenes Alejandro Xenos.\n\n Diogenes after the fabled seeker of truth; Alejandro after the conquerer of the world.  The explanation was simple, my father proclaimed as he held me for the priest's baptismal drops. \n\n 'With the truth, he shall conquer the world.

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