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In a way I think Alice is a pretty, classic name. The "Alice in Wonderland" association is nice. But I also keep making the "waitress in Mel's Diner" and Ralph Kramden's wife association. So I can't quite shake the image of a blue-collar name.
As far as Gladys goes, it doesn't really matter since you don't like it anyway. But if you had told me ten years ago that Hazel would be coming back in style, I would have said you were crazy. But it looks like it is. The same could be true of Gladys ten to fifteen years from now. And then you'd look like a trendsetter.