Sentence:  So twin boys, our fathers, were born in the USA. <WSD>Melchior</WSD> and Peregrine. What names, eh? What delusions of grandeur went into the naming of them? If you shorten them to 'Mel' and 'Perry', they've got a democratically twentieth-century and transatlantic ring to them. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (rather rare) (from=Old Persian).