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Shutterstock_DalaiLamaIf the following plot elements were scripted in a Hollywood romcom, they would likely have critics rolling their bleary eyes. A couple meets on New Year’s Eve, 2008. Five years later, their second child arrives one second after midnight local time January 1 and is christened with a name suggested to the parents by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

That’s the gist of Ben Chapman’s item today in the New York Daily News. If there is such a thing as a charmed New York life, Metok and Dorjee Choet­so‘s daughter Tenjin would seem to have a screaming head start:

To get the Dalai Lama’s recommendation for a name, the Queens couple phoned a secretary for His Holiness, who then asked the spiritual leader for a suitable moniker.

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