Woman gets pregnant, demands 23-year-old cousin give up her name so her daughter can have it and fulfil 'family prophecy': 'I need you to release the name to her'

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This is something one young woman unexpectedly found herself dealing with when her superstitious cousin made a strange demand of her. Her relative had always been observant of various spiritual traditions that she claimed were a part of the family, and when she got pregnant, this intensified.
She asked that the woman change her name so she could use it for her unborn daughter, insisting that this was how she would fulfil a “family prophecy”. She understandably refused the request, but she faced pushback. She wanted reassurance that she wasn't doing anything wrong.
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AITAH for refusing to let my cousin name her baby after me because of a "family prophecy"?

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Commenters assured her she wasn't doing anything wrong.

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