Believe it or not, there's an actual grammatical name for names like Patrick's optometrist's and Vassilissa's anarchist: aptronym. I kid you not; look it up.
Ach, I know what you're going through - last year, my hard drive died and took five years worth of un-backed up writing with it. Worse, when I tried to recover some of the files that my girlfriend had copies of, she told me that just a few days earlier she'd reformatted her hard drive, and that the back-up CD she'd made had turned out to be no good. The best you can do is curse the cruel gods responsible, try to save what and where you can, and move forward.
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