Occasionally people will ask if my license plate "HORT" has something to do with plants. It does not.

For as long as I can remember grandmother, Hortense Levy, had the Connecticut license plate "HORT" on her car.  When I inherited her car, I decided to continue the tradition, so I applied for the license plate "HORT" when I registered the car in Massachusetts.  When I traded-in her car, I kept the license plate and transfered it to the new car.

When we cleaned out her basement, we found a license plate from the 1940's that said "HORT".  Which suggests that she had that she had been using "HORT" for her license plate for more than 50 years.

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