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I like Marion. I consider it a feminine name, but John Wayne's birth name was Marion, so it has a very old fashioned masculinity to it. It is handsome, but in a feminine way. I have nice associations with this name - I used to live on "Rue Marion", which was in the French Quarter of my city, and I always felt so sophisticated living there, even though it was not a fancy place at all. It was one of my first apartments, I was young and full of dreams, so Marion is very "eyes full of stars" and plucky to me.