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I would love to be able to use Laura for a real-life daughter. Because Beatrice is a family name that I was always going to use, I wrote Laura off: the two together are too much early Italiam Renaissance poetry. I see Laura shining with a warm, gentle glow, and I'd rank it first among all the names you suggest, by a very long shot indeed. I don't mind Linda - it must have been pretty once - but the rest aren't my scene at all.

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Difficult to say how I pronounce it: the standard British English way, I suppose. The au in Laura is like the o in more. In the US I suppose the au would be more like an ah.

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I also like Laura for not being Lauren.