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AstiePan-Americas
or with different a size and color
ASTIEPAN-AMERICAS
or with different a size and color
ASTIEPan-Americas
Because astiepan is an Old English root for the word "orphan", and because we are networking across the Western Hemisphere, thus pan-americas
step- - O.E. steop-, with connotations of "loss," in combinations like steopcild "orphan," related to astiepan, bestiepan "to bereave," from P.Gmc. *steupa-. Etymologically, a stepfather or stepmother is one who becomes father or mother to an orphan.
-- Anonymous, April 27, 2002