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Being tone-deaf, I'm grateful that I wasn't named Melody, Allegra, Lyric etc. And, the first Melody I knew was a schoolgirl who was exquisitely beautiful but lazy and dishonest. I told her class one day that names were also words and had meanings; she was very excited at this, and jumped up and down, begging me to tell her what her name meant ... the surname wasn't Taylor but it might as well have been, and she was learning to play the piano! I told her to think about it, and she sulked!