When rotten things happen to perfectly good names

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Isis Redbanks

Sometimes a girl can’t catch a break. Isis Redbanks has a name that is rooted in pleasant mythology. Isis was the Egyptian goddess of health, marriage and wisdom. Who knew that just a few years after this perfectly lovely daughter named Isis was born in Toronto that some wretched thing call the Islamic State would co-opt the name? More than that, Ferrero, makers of Nutella, have decided that it cannot give Isis Redbanks a personalized jar of the famous chocolate flavoured cocoa spread, as it has promised to do for millions of other children. It has caused a lot of hard feeling in the Redbanks home and worst of all Isis does not get to have her personalized Nutella container. When bad things happen to good names.