“Names make it personal”

—That head was prompted by the following exchange:
“Can I say your name again before I take a nap, ****** ****?
What you’re seeing here is ‘How to Win friends and Influence People’ learned 70 years late and on my own.
Address your contact by name; I’ve noticed people like that.”
“Never too late to start something new,” she remarked.
So maybe she liked my addressing her by name. I hope so.
If it did make her happy, she’s not the only one. I’ve noticed so many others liking me using their names. Like it tells them I enjoy their company.
It hadn’t been that way for years, and I didn't attend no Dale Carnegie course.
Yr Fthfl Srvnt is a graduate of the Hilda Q. Walton School of Gender Relations, whereby at age-5 I was convinced no one would ever talk to me — especially not attractive females.
Now that my wife is gone (over eight years), I find that Faire Hilda, etc. were wrong.
And now that I’ve engaged people the first time in my life, I notice they like my using their names.
“Names make it personal:” a pearl-of-wisdom. People seem to wanna talk more if I use their names.
Why did I hafta lose my wife to notice this?