In Bali, the intergenerational forgetting of names is institutionalized. A woman will be known by her given name to peers. When she bears a son, the boy's age-mates will refer to her as "the mother of so-and-so."
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Age-mates
Synonyms for "age-mates"
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We're age-mates.
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