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Members of the Draghiciu family arrived at Ellis Island from Romania. They attempted to give a proper spelling of the surname with no background in English.
The clerk went with "Drag" on the official document and, generations later, Dennis and older sister Denise were the Drags as they went through the public schools of Gary, Ind., during the 1960s.
They were serenaded in hallways with the 1967 hit "Kind of a Drag" on occasion. The surname did work great for their father when he sat down for a high-stakes poker game and a fellow gambler shouted: "Make room for Johnny Drag."