My pal Ken Levine was once a writer-producer on M*A*S*H. On the series, reference would sometimes be made to a sister that Major Winchester (the David Ogden Stiers character) had. Her name was Honoria. Whenever I heard it, it reminded me of a girl I went to school with named Honoria but I somehow never assumed it was the same Honoria. I mean, there's more than one lady on this planet named Honoria, right?
The other day on his blog, Ken answered a question and revealed that the M*A*S*H Honoria was named after a girl he dated briefly in college.
A friend of mine from my high school days, Bruce Reznick, read this and wrote to Ken to ask if it might be the same Honoria that he (and I) knew from back then. The last names matched. It was.
I do not envy Ken's Emmy awards or his fabulous success as a TV writer and a sportscaster and a playwright. I envy that he got to go out with Honoria. She was real cute.
There's an Honoria in the mythos of Harry Potter, too. Wonder if it's the same one.