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Good for you for loving it. It would be so cool if it were to make a comeback. To me, it's funny to think about---certain names that are so universally disliked, yet at one point a great many people were seeing something appealing about them. Gladys pretty much zoomed out of nowhere right around 1900 and took the baby-naming world by storm. I had a great-aunt named Gladys, born in 1902, as I know I've mentioned before. Funny to think that she was given a name which was the 1902 equivalent of Olivia, Isabella, Charlotte today.

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Lots of talk about Irene lately, which puts me in mind of Gladys Irene.