Cassie

Hello, my name is Catherine Rose Ahiers, but you can call me Cassie.

“How do I get ‘Cassie’ out of Catherine?” you may ask. Well it doesn’t really make sense to me either. As my parents explain, they wanted to nickname me “Cate,” but there was one slight problem- the little girl who lived next door had already claimed the title. So in the hopes of preventing us from having a lifelong rivalry, they decided to bow out of the competition and choose a different alias for their daughter. My mom tells me that she simply liked the name “Cassie” from the start, so she decided to make the executive decision and dub me thus. And it can kind of make sense, I guess, if you make “Catherine” into “Cathy,” which sounds similar to “Cassie” spoken with a lisp.
So here I am today. Known to most as “Cassie,” known to some as “Short Stack,” and known to a select few as “Assie Hairs,” (high school was fun). And let’s just be honest, “Cassandra” is kind of an ugly name, so luckily my parents didn’t go down that path either. I fortunately dodged that bullet, and "next-door-Kate" and I became lifelong friends thanks to my parent’s one and only case of foresight.